Why is education so important for the future of the world we live in?

Question

To accomplish their goal Tampax and Always have entered into a five-year commitment with the United Nations Association HERO Campaign to create the Protecting Futures Program. The program will bring puberty education, traveling health educators, nutritious feeding programs, educational support services, a pad distribution program, and significant construction projects to schools in southern Africa.

Answer 1

education is very important but in the world that we currently live in in which life is so very unfair it is only important to those who are less privileged to have rich parents who control a town or country for that matter, or have parents who know people because in this world no matter how much education you have its all about who knows you not who you know.

Answer 2

World is already going  to a "KnowledgeBased Economy" , recently on "BBC World"~ I watch a very interesting programme="Laptop per Kids in Africa". I'm very hopeful that this kind of innovative project can change the human resource of next generation . Learn  Them "How to Fish? Not Give Fish to Eat." Otherwise it will again become a posthumous .

Answer 3

Education provides people with the knowledge to improve society. Life is about change - without an education about our past and knowledge about our future, we are sitting ducks who let life happen to them.

I'm tempted to quote.... "Like, such as, Iraq..."

Answer 4

Having lived in a 3rd world country where over 50% of the people cannot read.  I can attest that an educated people is a prosperous people.  You truly cannot succeed in this world if you do not have at least a basic knowledge of reading, writing, and arithmetic.  While one could argue that men like Bill Gates and Larry Elison became rich without a college degree, one can also argue that they still know how to read, write, and do basic math.  Whether or not a person has natural abilities, without a proper education, those abilities cannot be fully realized and a person's true nature may never be discovered.

Answer 5

knowledge is power!need all that you can get!!

Answer 6

If you know little, you contribute nothing, and take something.

Answer 7

The importance of education can not be measured. Its value is unmatchable. Without it stems ignorance, frustration, anger, and demise. With it, solutions, alternatives, and new ideas can be brought forth to further improve the evolution of man kind. With each generation we are making one step forward in a direction that will further address world issues such as environmental awareness, famine, disease, and war. As we learn from our mistakes, we are able to improve the next time around. Without education, improvement and progress would never be achieved. From coal miners to rocket science, building a peaceful, efficient, and growing species is all based on the evolution of our education. There is no greater purpose than using the mind to everyone's best advantage. Thank you for the opportunity to discuss this matter. Great question.

Answer 8

Mere education is NOT ENOUGH, but rather the QUALITY of education and educators is foremost and paramount.  Look at the dismally low aptitude levels of students in one of the most powerful and richest nation on Earth, the United States, where education is an absolute shameful atrocity.  The U.S. ranks 86th in the world in aptitude test scores.  Most graduates cannot even read their own diplomas.  The high school drop out rate in America has skyrocketed; and this is a nation WITH education.  Here the education does not challenge its scholars; it has incrementally been dumb down to an infant’s pabulum; and ridiculous pop-cultural issues and directionless fascination with fads supersedes the vital fundamentals of learning.

Answer 9

Education is very important in life, you need a good education to find a good job.

Answer 10

Knowledge is power, I believe we are life time students.

Also Knowledge can be used against people, So it is what one does with knowledge that is imporant. One should not have so much knowledge with out common sense and good

will towards human kind.

Answer 11

Education can help reduce ignorance.  

Ignorance is a downward spiral.

Answer 12

its not

Answer 13

Education will help secure a promising future for young people. Unlike China and other countries, the children do not go to school all week long, they have weekends. They usually play with toys and video games. American values fall short to world issues. If there are more well-educated children, the industry will have more a of selection of future employees. Education will gear children into a bigger world prospective. Perhaps that will promote more business and services being done with other places around the world.

Answer 14

People point to the sciences and education related to it and assert that that is what determines the future of the world. They claim that being a doctor, or an engineer is particularly useful. It is definately true that each of those professions play a valuable role in deciding the future of a country.

However, it is just as important to realize that education is really just an exposure to the thoughts of others, not just in the in your neighborhood, but across the world. Education breaks boundaries and exposes people to what similar and dissimilar thoughts may be. Not knowing that you are not alone can remove hope, and that is where those without education live: In a place without hope. Accordingly, it is important to get the education to live with hope... to know that tomorrow can be better than today.

Answer 15

not all education is important but the reason that education is important is because it helps prepair for the future... but teh school system fails to realize that not everyone will becaome a scientest when they grow up and a mathamatician/carpenter and a historian all at the same time... dumb government... if i was teh person in charge i would: make english the only manditory cource by the time of high school

Answer 16

Education is extremely important because it is the basic foundation of every move and every decision we make in our daily lives.  Education is not only what comes out of a book, but what is taught to us by our parents or should be taught.  It is obvious by observing our society today, that no one is being taught properly and there is such a thirst for knowledge from the youth of today and it is not being fulfilled.  

There used to be a thread weaved from grandparents, to parents to children by which knowledge was passed along and that string seems to have disappeared, leaving this younger generation to flounder.  It is extremely important that knowledge is passed down from generation to generation, thereby enhancing each new generation that comes along.  We can only benefit from the educational process to make this world a better place to live in.

Answer 17

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Answer 18

With education comes choice. If people are not well educated they do not have the knowledge base to make informed decisions. If people cannot make informed decisions they can't be expected to do what is best for them.

Answer 19

i agree with scarlett..

the future depends on how well the new generations are taught, which can be either good or bad. the younger ones that are taught what their community does then the other generations will depend on how they are structured with today..

Answer 20

The knowledge we acquire today, we will put to use tomorrow.

Answer 21

Because education is something that other people cannot take from a person. Yes, material wealth, influence and power can diminish, or even vanish but education is something that will be within oneself for the rest of his life, and as long as he/she has an education, it gives him/her a chance to have a good future.

Answer 22

Education is the key to better economic prosperity. Education is the key to broaden's people interlectual, and stimulate their minds. But more over education is the key to shapen the world in which live in now. Education is empowerment, self-sufficiency and freedom. Which many of the poorest country in the nation's and the whole world do not have. Cause their leaders rather have the power, and keep their citizen under wraps so that they can exploit their resources of their country.

Education believe or not changes a whole lot. Education gave me a new language, (English), gave me something that I was prohibited from in my own German country.

I think it's important to educate people. The more people get educated the more power they have in their hand's to change their future.  EDUCATION = EMPOWERMENT!!

Answer 23

Why dont you use your common sence?

Answer 24

I remembered this one actor on this commercial talking

about why kids shouldn't do drugs or something saying,

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste."  I always thought that

it could be implied to both staying off drugs and staying

in school.

Answer 25

They can take everything from you but your education!!!

Answer 26

day say jimbo lee knows it goodly. he saids that education is "the ability to transform yourself and to build up a foundation for your future, education leads to your destiny and happiness"

Answer 27

I disagree, some of the smartest people created the dumbest things like nuclear and biological weapons and educated people sell these weapons to educated leaders to use on other people.  George Bush is college educated and look at the legacy he will leave behind one of incompetence, hatred, intolerance and greed.

Answer 28

Education is what some call human capital improvement.

Education in the fields that I think Tampax and Always might be concerned or interesed in (that is just a supposition on my part) would increase the health and possibly welfare of the people(human capital) involved.

Knowledge is necessary to survive and if the individual or group has a higher knowledge / education base the greater thier chances to survive and prosper. Thhis hold true for all creatures not just humans, it is just that humans are More likely to share knowledge and learn from others.

What education / knowledge you have and are best able to exploit depends on where you are and what is available to you to exploit that knowledge. For example if you where a machimist but lived somewhere that didn't have a need for machinist that knowledge wouldn't benefit you much and if you where a animal tracker in a big city (unless you worked as some pest control) that knowledge would be of little use. It would be like being a Mac/programer user when everyone uses a Microsoft Windows PC or an French Grammar teacher when / where no one has any desire to learn French.  

So what I am trying to say is it is not an education but an education in things that are pertinent to the person(s) and the opportunities available to them.

Education is NOT a end all be all cure all.

It does NOT have any guarantee of success but just improves the odds some.

Answer 29

The goal of education is fourfold: the social purpose, intellectual purpose, economic purpose, and political/civic purpose. Current education issues include which teaching method(s) are most effective, how to determine what knowledge should be taught, which knowledge is most relevant, and how well the pupil will retain incoming knowledge. Educators such as George Counts and Paulo Freire identified education as an inherently political process with inherently political outcomes. The challenge of identifying whose ideas are transferred and what goals they serve has always stood in the face of formal and informal education.

In addition to the "Three R's", reading, writing, and arithmetic, Western primary and secondary schools attempt to teach the basic knowledge of history, geography, mathematics (usually including calculus and algebra), physics, chemistry and sometimes politics, in the hope that students will retain and use this knowledge as they age or that the skills acquired will be transferable. The current education system measures competency with tests and assignments and then assigns each student a corresponding grade. The grades, usually a letter grade or a percentage, are intended to represent the amount of all material presented in class that the student understood. Pre- and post-tests may be used to measure how much was learned.

Educational progressives or advocates of unschooling often believe that grades do not necessarily reveal the strengths and weaknesses of a student, and that there is an unfortunate lack of youth voice in the educational process. Some feel the current grading system lowers students' self-confidence, as students may receive poor marks due to factors outside their control. Such factors include poverty, child abuse, and prejudiced or incompetent teachers.[original research?]

By contrast, many advocates of a more traditional or "back to basics" approach believe that the direction of reform needs to be the opposite. Students are not inspired or challenged to achieve success because of the dumbing down of the curriculum and the replacement of the "canon" with inferior material. They believe that self-confidence arises not from removing hurdles such as grading, but by making them fair and encouraging students to gain pride from knowing they can jump over these hurdles. It can truly be said that almost all historical figures considered to be great successes were educated without what we call traditional schooling. Even those exposed to traditional schooling do not necessarily benefit from it. Albert Einstein, the most famous physicist of the twentieth century, who is credited with helping us understand the universe better, was not a model school student. He was uninterested in what was being taught, and he did not attend classes all the time. On the other hand, his gifts eventually shone through and added to the sum of human knowledge.[original research?]

There are a number of highly controversial issues in education. Should some knowledge be forgotten? Should classes be segregated by gender? What should be taught? There are also some philosophies, for example Transcendentalism, that would probably reject conventional education in the belief that knowledge should be gained through more direct personal experience. A recent book argues that children are being expected to learn too much. "There is an ongoing tendency to increase the length of textbooks. There are various reasons why people want to add to the education of children. People who work on education often believe, nobly enough, that the most important contribution is to get children to learn more. Publishers want to sell new books and adding new material is an important aspect of an effective sales pitch".[23] Also, the cost of higher education in developed countries is increasingly becoming an issue.

Education is becoming increasingly international. Not only are the materials becoming more influenced by the rich international environment, but exchanges among students at all levels are also playing an increasingly important role.

Answer 30

Because a vast majority of people will work for business owners, the workers must possess skills that meet the needs or desires of their taskmasters.  They must be ever productive and generate revenues and profits that vastly exceed their wages.  "Education", formerly and more accurately called "training", will teach the proletariat what it needs to know and do to fulfill the dreams of the employers.  True education is a bad thing, as it increases the populace's awareness of history and economics, which would undermine its willingness to succumb to society's requirement to be servile and content with mediocrity.

Answer 31

if we don't know anything when we grow up, how are we going to manage things?

if a computer breaks down or you need to make a new program, who is going to do it when no young people know math and programming?