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Importance Of Education

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The importance of education in the United States is stressed in words, by people who act like they want you to succeed, but do not push or motivate you to do so. My generation does want things handed to us without much effort having to be put in by us, but for most part if people push us to do things we will want to go above and beyond. I speak from my personal experience, but I know I am not the only person that can relate. People go to school just to receive a diploma or to get a degree, simply because it is instilled in us throughout our school years that if we don’t have a diploma or degree we won’t be able to get a job and be successful in life. McDonald’s will not even hire you without a high school diploma, so people do the bare minimum just to get that diploma. Students go to school to earn a grade, not to learn. I was one of those students that paid attention just so I could pass the test, then never bother to revisit what I learned. My elementary school education sticks out in my mind the most about my former education. My teachers were the hardest one me in elementary school. I attended Lincoln Elementary Magnet School in Albany, Georgia. My fourth-grade math teacher made us do multiplication and division problems every day. Even if the subject was graphing functions that day in class, the multiplication and division problems would be incorporated in the schedule. You would think doing the same thing repeatedly would get annoying, but it never got old. The name

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