Equity, Equality and Quality Education

I'm not an expert in the subject matter and intricacies of equity, equality and quality of education.  But one thing I do know is that, when talking about equality, the platform from where we speak, and the platform from where we take our stand are major significant determinant of how we view it. For instance, the American have equal but separate system before the civil right movement.  An example will be reserving equal number of seat inside a bus or theatre for the whites and the blacks.  Now such reservation, even though equal in number, can ever be called equal if you happened to be a black American at that time?

Besides, when talking about equity and equality, we cannot talk about them without the term 'inclusive' and 'exclusive'.  I said the platform from where we speak is important because what is inclusive for someone will never be inclusive for the other.  And without inclusion, there will never be equality or equity.  

On the other hand, quality will also be based on, besides many things, on the aspiration of the child and their parents.  For example, if a child wanted to be a language teacher when she grow up, a curriculum having a beautifully contextualized concept of geometry in maths will not hold much quality for her.

But based on my simple understanding, equity, equality and quality of education are talked together in one breath when talking about the work of the foundation, or when talking about the government education system is because of the following:

• The government wanted to ensure equity for all the children of the country and as such, find a solution in quantity of school.

•  Equality is ensured by providing school to every community and ensuring that every children has an access to these school. 

• So to put together equity and equality, the government opened excessive number of schools to ensure equity i.e. equal distribution across the country, so everyone has equal access to school by opening many schools.

• Now when it comes to quality concern, there is only one option to ensure quality to such huge number of schools across the country, that is, to work with the school opened by the government, because we can’t possibly compete with the government in opening schools all across the country.

• So what APF did was work with the government schools, and since the government schools have kind of already ensured equity (through numbers of schools) and equality (through opening access to everyone), we help them improve the quality of those school, which mean, if we are successful, we will be ensuring equitable, equal and quality education to every child in the country.

Now do I over simplify this?