Importance Of Education

Education plays a very important role in our lives. It ensures a brighter future for everyone. Not many people succeed in life without a good educational foundation. It’s clearly that education is a national policy which is always given top priority.

Almost people want an interesting job with a good salary. To achieve it, you must get a good education. Getting a good job means having a better living standard. For example, compare two people. The first person is a high school drop-out, the second has a medical degree. The high school drop-out may got a job in food service, making about 1.5 million VND a month, barely eating. The second will have a better career as a doctor, making over 8 million VND a month. The doctor will, of course, have a more comfortable life than the first. Obviously, college graduates have a better chance of having a good paying job than high school graduates or high school drop-out. That shows the importance of education in modern life.

A high quality education does not necessarily mean a five-years university degree. We have many choice, we don’t have to go to university at all cost. After high school graduation, one may choose to attend a technical school or a junior college. Where we study at is not important, it’s important in how we study.

In Vietnam, students who want a better educational foundation often choose to study abroad. Environment of modern education will help students develop their own potential abilities. If you don’t have conditions to study abroad, you can still study at home universities.

The Value Of Education

In this Twenty-First Century, the value of education has taken on a whole new meaning. Education is an important tool that contributes to several aspects of a person’s life in order to take advantage of what have been learned and how to productively it in either personal or professional life. Being educated is something that always being looked at as a positive achievement that feels good and looks good on a resume. A paper education can almost assure someone of making more money in their lifetime. So no matter what, education is the key that allows people to move up in the world, seek better jobs, and ultimately succeed fully in life.

Quoted from John Adams, “There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live.” Two types of education that basically exposed to the world are formal education and informal education, which are seems to be familiar to us. Formal education is classroom-based, provided by trained teachers. Informal education happens outside the classroom, in after-school programs, community-based organizations, museums, libraries, or at home. Both formal and informal education settings offer different strengths to the educational outreach project. Formal education needs to meet the educational standards and stick to a specified curriculum. Informal education, on the other hand, can be more flexible with their content. However, both formal and informal educations are essential to everyone.

The major role of education is to create an educated society. In the culture today, there is a huge emphasis on education, especially higher education. Society usually says the more educated, the better of a person will be. That is pretty much true if a person live by the means of society. The basic idea that education, especially a college education, is something that people should pursue even into their adult years is not any means a new idea. Every society has specialized individuals who fulfill certain...