Education What is the value of education? I have been pondering this question all my life, especially since immigration to the U.S.A. In this society, having an education means everything for a high standard of living. Do you think so? During my residence in America as a citizen, however, this question has been echoing unceasingly in my heart. With the great contributions of The Bill of Rights and the influence of the Civil Rights movement, people have demanded their freedom and rights beyond what is necessary or unimaginably-sometimes laissezaller. This democratic, Federal Republic government has been emphasizing personal achievement and fulfillment, or attainability-the value of living collectively by considering the balance of the individual’s social and cultural goals. One of the major social emphases is on education. What is the purpose of getting an education? Simply, it is to get a qualitative and better, or higher standard of living under the wing of the liquidation of illiteracy? Do you think so? Sometimes it expiates for the opposite consequences; these include-an unprecedented juvenile delinquency, or incessant felony and misdemeanor, torts, casual/lecherous divorce, and other indescribable moral turpitude aggravated. Why or how does this happen? One of the reasons-I believe is that such an easy accessibility of the educational participation or opportunity through enormous educational institutions and agencies, results in more people not regarding an education as primary or weighty. As a result, that who is “left out”, “average,” or even “above” merely considers the school system as “experience” without taking it into their hearts seriously or conscientiously. They are simply parroting or regurgitating like an assembly line of a bauble and tinkering bric a brac. Education has wrought damage and devastations to each individual and his/her society, which represents prejudice, self-conceit, hypocrisy, and blindness. Many of us use education as a trajectory of their self-defense and justification-I believe. One historian says a primitive society raises a child to be a man, but a modern society, scholars. Obtaining a number of degrees without having interrelatedness for his or her personal achievement is a invalidation of the pure purpose of an education. An aim of education is not to accumulate or flaunt degrees, but is to learn the
values and quintessence of other socially relevant sciences to contribute its benefits to society. The goal is not merely the quantities of subjects to learn; rather, it is to educate to transmit their concepts, values, qualities, so as in general our standard of living may become not to equate just outwardly but inwardly as well. Furthermore, the process of acquiring knowledge seems to be just partly a collection of voluminous information as a database, not selective learning-the values of thoughts and concepts eruditely. With an illustration of a success as our final
destination in a voyage, many have dashed into an open sea, supplying an education as a map without learning the use of a
compass for navigation. It is true that an education is one kind of guidance like a compass as just mentioned, but it is not the map-and certainly not the destination. For instance-when the overloaded vessel has a collusion in an open sea-whether it is consigned legally or not, the estimated damage is much worse than that of the regular one with well-loaded. In order to pursue a successful voyage, each of us always needs to study and examine a compass and a map per se so that our vessel is able to navigate accordingly to reach out our final destination safely. What is the
value of education? We, as individuals, should start thinking about this topic more scrupulously; and-in the aggregate-it is just not only focusing on our short-term profits or conveniences, but also viewing for our long-term perceptive and realizations to ameliorate and recuperate what the education should be.
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