Review of Three Essays- How can we Challenge our Life via Education?

How can we Challenge our Life via Education?

Language is obviously a vital tool. Not only it is a means of communicating thoughts and ideas, but it forges friendships, cultural ties, and economic relationships. It provides the key to the future, in fact, it facilitates the process of learning and becoming educated which is the strength that we must acquire to pass through the 21st century challenges, its tribulations and illusions. Basically, they are three interesting essays, “A Letter to a Child Like Me ‘’, ‘’From Drop out to a Graduate’’ and “Thinking’’, focus on the importance of education, and how it will hold the key to having a better life, good social conditions, and to live in harmony with the other members of the society. Hence, education is the best solution to overcome struggle of class issues, race relations, and immigration problems. So, how can education improve our existence? And does really education outweigh the life obstacles that we need to avoid for succeeding?

Education is a continuous and creative process. It is an instrument of change, educated people contribute to self-development and the improvement of their community. To illustrate, Laura Kuehn – the author of ‘’ From Drop out to a Graduate ‘’ – provides a vivid example how education improves her life, especially after she had faced a horrible social circumstances and recognized the waste of time she had gone throw. ‘’ Looking back, it seems to me that the longer I waited to attend college the bigger the obstacles were to get there. Before I knew it I was in my mid-twenties, divorced, bankrupt, and uneducated’’ she states.

Moreover, education makes people safe and offers them a great opportunity to a better life, because it holds the key for succes...

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...evements. ‘’ My second lesson about freedom was that you had better be able to take care of your own needs’’ says Jorif. Thus, education gives people the opportunity to acquire and learn new skills as well as develop themselves.

Mentioning above most of the importance of education as the only safe ground that we can stand upon for a better future full of dignity and respect, we will be allowed to have a better chance of getting a decent life above minimum wages. Youth these days need to know the consequences of being not educated, and that ignorance will occur if they don't stimulate their minds with what's important. Go to school, get your lessons, do your very best, increase your skills, and fertilize your brain is the right path to success.

works cited:

Across Cultures : A Reader For Writers , chapter 04, 7th Edition ,by Sheena Gillespie and Robert Becker