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The Importance Of Education

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Why school? Throughout life, we always tend to wonder whether or not having an education is beneficial and can end up leading to a life of success. As students, we always search for the deliverance that will help us to answer this question. When we are young, we view school as a place to meet new people and a place that we go to have fun. But once we grow out of this stage, we wonder what the true reasoning behind education actually is. We as students tend to outgrow the day to day lifestyle of forcing ourselves out of bed every morning to go to a place we have no idea to interpret what we are learning and how to apply it to our lives. We are lost, and this guidance that we are in search of, comes from educators who believe that school is …show more content…

He states that learning things that you’ve never learned before helps you continue because you want to learn much more (Rose 33-43).
As a student, I went through a day to day debate always questioning if education was something that I truly needed. When I was younger, I always enjoyed bonding with other students and learning new things, mainly because when you’re a child, you never have to worry about anything serious, so I honestly loved going to school. But, as I got older I realized that I was going to school every day, and getting good grades, but I didn’t know why I was doing it. I was no longer that young child who loved going to school, I turned into a student who began to dread the mere thought of stepping foot into a school. I was no longer a student full of curiosity and drive, I became the confused one. Throughout my earlier years of high school, I began to lose interest in my education, due to the fact that I believed that everything I was learning wouldn’t help to prepare me for what I was planning to do with my life. I never found most things worthy of my time because I felt as if they wouldn't prepare me for the outside world.
Whenever I took math, I thought it was a waste of my time, because when on earth would I need to figure out why x and y equaled z. I thought that reading and writing was pointless because I always hated writing papers and

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