IMPORTANCE
OF EDUCATION
EDUCATION! A word that animates my face whenever I hear it. According to
Google, education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition
of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs and habits. Well, to me, education is the
learning about new ideas, places and the world itself.
There is a great difference between being literate and being
educated; the ability to read and write is being literate while being educated
is to be able to reason, to use your ability to read and write to your
advantage.
We ask ourselves sometimes, why is education important, education
is very important in our day-to-day activities, I strongly believe that by the
time you are through with this article, you would be able to see the importance
of education.
Also, being educated gives the will to keep trying till you
succeed. An uneducated person may have better intellectual and labour capacity
but there will be the lack of understanding of multiple ways to achieve their
goals which is an obstacle.
Being educated also leads to economic growth of the nation. When
the people of a nation are EDUCATED and not LITERATE, they would definitely
carve ways to be self sufficient. When the people in a society are economically
independent, it will serve as a stepping stone to combined productivity that
leads to the economic growth of the nation as a whole. Countries like Russia,
Canada, Japan, Israel and the United states have been ranked the 5 most
educated countries in the world because of the percentage of people who went to
school up to the tertiary level but the question is: are they really educated?
An educated person would be able to keep up with evolution. You
can only keep up with evolution if you are aware of them. When I say evolution,
I mean things like Whatsapp. Imagine what the world would be like without
Whatsapp, Facebook, Nimbuzz, Skype, etc, since all these are made to simplify
life.
Education makes one logical. An uneducated person would see
evolution as an evil machinery. Remember, being educated does not mean you
can't read or write, it means you can't apply your literacy in your day-to-day
life. I was talking to a woman in my area and she was telling me that online
shops like Jumia, Konga, etc are the devil's machinery. Just think, does this
mean this person can't read or write, of course not, she can read and write but
it just means she is uneducated. I had to take time to let her know that online
shops makes shopping easier for a busy person and also the other benefits
attached to it even though it has its own disadvantages like fraud, but only an
uneducated person, mind you, I don't mean an illiterate but an uneducated
person that would be defrauded.
There are other benefits attached to education but I would like
to drop my pen here.
Be Educated!!!
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