Educate Me!

Since this is my last blog post and the final is nearing it's due date I thought it would be fitting to give my reasons why it is important to be educated. First of all I find that education is a necessary means of stability for all countries, states, and cities. The idea of education has been around for thousands of years and really, is the basis of our existence. Mothers teach their young to hunt, and defend themselves. The Romans taught their citizens how to fight and conquer. You, Julie are teaching me how I can have a second chance at college. But is education more than just the basic learning we so well understand from school? Or is there a higher reasoning behind all this? I find that school, is very important. It is very important that children attend school to learn. School however, is only a stepping block. We learn things that prepare us for college, yet at the same time school allows us to learn how to learn. In other words, beyond the mathematics and the english, school gives us the knowledge we need to keep on learning. We learn more about life, about human conditions and how to interact in society. That is in my opinion the real reason behind education. Sure we learn about Pythagoras and nouns, but becoming educated is about allowing you to realize and learn on your own the things you need to survive. How can a person learn about life lessons if he does not know how to learn at all? Becoming educated it so much more important than just school. It is about setting up your brain to let yourself learn. Not only that, you can now seek more knowledge. The brain once educated will strive to always see more knowledge. This is the essence of becoming educated. So that we can know that we have the power to learn more about everything, we can seek out new knowledge. My grandpa is 85 years old, yet he still learns everyday with a strong ambition to expand his knowledge about life. Being educated is the most important thing you can do for yourself.