Karlene Carby-Dixon, Youth Writer
IS EDUCATION really important? This is the kind of question that involves some amount of controversy, because some persons wonder what is the sense of studying hard to get a diploma or degree and then find such difficulty in securing a good job.
But learning is an essential component in being educated. To be unable to analyse the events that you see and experience in life is critical because that leaves you in the position of being exploited or taken for a fool.
One however, does not have to be schooled to be educated. I'm sure you are amazed at times to see how some persons who did not go beyond primary level education can sit and have intellectual conversations with you. Contrarily, some persons who have been schooled and are considered to be 'highly' educated, cannot reason well with others because all they know is what is in a book.
Education allows you to be more knowledgeable and wise. It affords you the ability to be informed, to analyse and to reason well with others. It is the vehicle on which you travel through life, you can use it to gain a career or to simply know the routes to take to make progress in life.
