What Education Really Is

What Education Means To Me

As my grandfather used to say, “Knowledge is power.” But
where is the basis for this power? The knowledge for our future is
stored in the young minds of our nation’s children, who may one day
change the world.

Knowledge means many different things to many different
people. To children in some third-world countries, for example,
intelligence and even the chance to go to school means everything.
It would mean they could make a few dollars in order to feed their
families when they are adults, if they only had the resources we have.
In America, we have the chance to learn, but many Americans take
knowledge and education for granted. Our United States Constitution
ensures us the right to an education, a right that many other children
all around the world envy.

To me, an education means that when I grow up, and after I go
to college, my family will be well provided for. My own education
allows me, at least, a chance for a good job, with good pay; a chance
to further better myself. My education also means that when I am an
adult, I can find a good job that will help in times of bad health. With
a doctor’s degree or a law degree, I could even buy the summer
home my parents have always wanted, even since before I was a
twinkle in my mother’s eyes. If anyone at all needs another reason to
love our education, know that your mind is the only thing that no one
can take away from you. The government can reposes your house
and it can take away your car. Sometimes, children can even be
taken away for them to be better cared for. In hard times, all you
really have is your brain, so you might as well take good care of it.

The education of America means that we can help ourselves,
and our country, to climb higher on the economic ladder of the world.
Our school system in the United States is very good, but it can be
better. If we had an even better teaching and learning system, we
could really make our country the best that it can be.

So many other parents would die to get the education that we
have for their children, and we’re lucky to have what we do. I think
we should take advantage of the situation, because without a proper
education, I cannot better myself, my country cannot help itself, and I
cannot get a really good job, like I want to.

Recently, a very nice teacher taught me an old saying:
“Make hay while the sun shines-- that’s smart.
Go fishing during the harvest-- that’s silly.”
I think I learned quite a lot from that saying. I found out that I
wanted to ‘make hay’, and that is why education is important to me.