The Importance Of School Education

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"I have always tried to not let school get in the way of my education", this is a quote that is credited to Grant Allen, but the quote is well-known because of Mark Twain. If you try to decipher the quote to acquire the meaning you may end up with a different meaning; then someone else because there is a collection of meanings. My understanding of the quote is that he didn 't let his school, school education, get in the way of his overall education. This is the most common explanation because of the meaning of the two focus points of the quote: school and education, education is not only attained from school, and even Grant Allen presented the meaning in his works.

First, one reason to support my meaning is the comprehension of the meaning …show more content…

Also, you can learn people, organizations, and life in general. Life is the greatest teacher because of the experiences you have during your lifetime, the vase types of trials everyone has to go through, and the duration of life is left up to you; giving you to learn something new every day of your life. The most common way people learn in life is by means of interacting with other people. For instances, this is a situation that actually …show more content…

In the book "The Woman Who Did", the excerpt below is a woman, Herminia, is explaining why she left conventional schooling at Girton. Alan, the other character, compiles her explanation.
"So I wouldn 't stop at Girton, partly because I felt the life was one-sided, – our girls thought and talked of nothing else on earth except Herodotus, trigonometry, and the higher culture, – but partly also because I wouldn 't be dependent on any man, not even my own father. It left me freer to act and think as I would. So I threw Girton overboard, and came up to live in London.". "I see," Alan replied. "You wouldn 't let your schooling interfere with your education."
This book was about a woman, who had a child out of wedlock, making the best life for her child and herself. In both cases, there is someone having the desire to do some, but school is causing a blockade in their life. So, by the excerpts, Allen 's meaning of his quote was that although school is important is it not your life and should not stop you from doing what you desire to

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