How important is an education?
Having an education is so important that some young people in Iraq risk their lives everyday to go to school. It’s so vital that some children in Africa walk several miles each way, every morning and every afternoon, to go to school.
Having an education is so important that people have died through the centuries in the fight to gain access for their children and future generations of “everybody’s children” and not just the off-spring of the rich and the privileged.
Having an education means your mind has been exposed to exercises of logic and critical thinking.
This means you have the basic skills to assess the opinions and laws being discussed in political forums around the world. You have the skills to read and comprehend the Bible, the Koran and any other religious book that you may feel called to read, in other words, you don’t have to depend on someone else’s ‘explanation’ of what the book says, you can read it and absorb the meaning of the text based on your own understanding.
Being educated means you have the skills to write down your thoughts on issues that are important to you and to others. An educated man could send a final letter home to his family before embarking on the battlefields of Waterloo or D-Day.
Having an education can give you a recognized qualification to fulfill just about any goal or ambition you have for your life. Someone once said “…the pen is mightier than the sword…”
Yes! The pen is mighty, but nearly as devastating as the computer.
Having an education means determined people behind closed lines of communication can still tell the outside world of the injustices going on in their land through text messages and wireless Internet access.
Having an education means you can read what others are saying and have said in the past…
Yes, you can read, first-hand accounts of events that took place centuries ago, and hopefully, learn something from mistakes made in the past to avoid them in the future.
Having an education is a privilege that too many of the spoiled, whiny, brats in ‘civilized’ Countries don’t appreciate, don’t take advantage of… It’s sad really, when you consider the lengths people will go to in order to obtain a chance to be educated in other parts of the world.
It’s almost a pitiful as our response to …. voting. Which of course is something else taken for granted with no regard for the people that gave up their freedom, and in some cases their very lives to gain the right to vote and to send their children to a decent school.
