We Can Be Anything

             From the past to present days, many states and people try to come up with solutions to reduce the gap between the haves and the have nots. Many methods have been invented through those considerations. Almost every method focuses on providing equal opportunity and starting point whether some people are born in wealth or poor family. To achieve this main goal to provide equal chance, many people usually think that the education is one of the easiest opportunities that can be provided equally. By providing public education to children, states want to motivate younger generation to achieve better future regardless of their born and reduce rich-poor gap. It means education is a way to escape from birth and method that breaks out of a vicious circle of poverty.

             In the ad, it is composed of a child’s steps to school and studying. Apl.de.ap, who is a member of Black Eyed Peas, appears several times in the ad and narrates. He keeps saying two versions of narration: studying, working hard or doing nothing. At the end of the ad, we can see that his saying that he worked and studied hard than did nothing during his life so he could be someone that he wanted to be. The ad’s message is simple: We can be anything by education. The ad made for the campaign that tries to make classrooms in countries and regions that are suffering from poverty. People who made this film and participate in the campaign think that they can solve the gap between rich and poor (not only for gap among people but also among nations).

             Today, almost every country in the world provides public education. By enjoying the equal opportunity of education, the problem of gap between rich and poor is reduced but just for the country which is developing. In developed countries, education is no longer a method to solve the problem because in those states, though there is a public education, there are many other private educations that make the gap between poor and rich. It means that the rich can enjoy better and more opportunities than people who do not affordable for those other educations. Therefore I come up with questions that does education can be the way to reduce gap among people and states? Is it possible to solve the problem just by providing education and establishing education facilities?