Ma. Myra Mae R.

Sobretodo July 27,

2017

BEEd IV-B

“A child miseducated is a child lost.”

(John F. Kennedy)

Values education is indeed very important to us, especially for a child,

because this is what molds us to become a fully human being. This is what
drags us to a peaceful and happy life. When Jhon F. Kennedy stressed out
that “A child miseducated is a child lost.” another quote has come up into my
mind. It was the quote “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no
education at all.” These two statements were somehow alike. They may point
out the same thought. It was just it was stated differently.

If we try to look at Kennedy’s statement literally, we could say that it

talks about a child who does not go to school, but if we focus on what he
meant when he once said those words, I could say that he was thinking not
about the school thingy but the values the child could get. The education in
that statement represents the educational values. The word lost in the
statement doesn’t literally means that he was out of nowhere. I think it was
used to represent the incompleteness of being a child without those
educational values. To sum it up, Kenedy means that without values
education, a child will never be completely a child. Children now a days,
doesn’t take education seriously. Some think that education is just a waste of
time.
 We are all aware that education is really important. We should help
those children to inculcate in their young minds how important it is and what
will happen without it. We must help them understand the true essence of
education so that it won’t happen that a child will be miseducated.