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Luis Miguel Orozco

Prof. Pushpa

English 102

September 26, 2017

Education in Our Society

Education is more than just learning from books, and it is a shame that a lot of

schools do not see that it is more than just a curriculum and school score. A good

education can teach a child how to learn so that the child may take up independent

learning as an adult. Education may also teach a child how to reason so that a child

does not grow up to be ignorant. I will show you the two best reasons why education is

important in our society.

The biggest selling point for education in our society is the fact that it helps

people learn “how” to learn. It is not about the knowledge they accumulate, it is the way

a child is taught how to “learn” things. A child may come away from school not knowing

a lot of the course, but if that child has been taught how to learn, then that child may

become an adult that learns everything he or she needs in life. Otherwise, that child

may grow up to be a person that cannot see the obvious because he or she cannot

reason and consciously learn new things.

Education teaches people how to reason, and if they are taught how to reason

well, then they help subdue their own thoughts of ignorance. For example, there are lots

of posts and websites on the Internet about childhood vaccinations and how dangerous

they are. Ignorant people than never learned how to reason will look at them, believe
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them and support them. If a person is taught how to reason, then he or she will know

how to recognize empirical evidence.

That person would look at all the people in the US that have had childhood

injections (most of them) and then look at all the people with autism. They would reason

that if childhood vaccinations caused autism then most of the people in the US would

have autism. If a person is taught how to reason then that person may see how people

that smoke seem more likely to develop emphysema than people that do not smoke.

They would then reason there is a link between smoking and emphysema. This sort of

reasoning can be taught in schools, and if children are not taught it then they walk

around risking their children’s lives by not vaccinating them, and walk around smoking

because their daddy smoked for years and it never hurt him.

If education is not seen as important, then one day it will just be all about school

scores and hitting the factors of a curriculum. There will be a day when children start to

hate learning because school put them off it for life (this already happens in some

cases). Plus, without education teaching people how to reason things out and teaching

them how to separate what is fact from what is faulty evidence, then our society will

become more and more ignorant until a smarter country simply marches over and takes

our country from under out ignorant noses.