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The Importance Of Education

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Society has always been built up of set regulations that define individuals and their actions in what is acceptable and what is not. Today there is various components that are set to be socially acceptable but in reality they aren’t. Education, the press, religion and individuality are not truly regulated to fit everyone and Mill was right to simplify the problem to be the people. Society needs to review what is wrong with the idea of a good citizen and what it is based on and should change the factors expressing it in order to favor everyone because otherwise we are preventing future advances.
Education in our country is not adjusted to favor everyone, there is a limit to public education and how far one can afford it. Public education helps students until they graduate high school but then affordability reaches a boundary making it harder for everyone to have the same opportunities. Mill believed that education “brings people under common influences, and gives them access to the general stock of facts and sentiments.” The education system in today’s society prioritizes by financial status and that is wrong in the sense that everyone should be educated without being categorized by how much money they have. Someone who grows up in a poor family will be underlooked when compared to someone from a rich family thus having different education opportunities. Society needs to stop and look at the situation because it is filled with students who can’t have an education due to it’s

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