0 the importance of education

Good morning teachers and friends,

I am very happy to be here today to talk about the importance of education.

As we know that today we can enjoy technology and better living condition because of the human capacity to create and invent new things. With such big brain, human has capacity to build the world become better and better. Thanks to education that today most people can read and share knowledge freely through internet. The importance of education is obvious that no one can deny it. Actually the living standard has positive correlation with the education level, more education leads to more prosper and wellbeing. The challenge is that the gap between countries in the access of education is still high. In this chance I won’t address this problem, I will focus only to the importance of education today and in the future.

As I mentioned before that education has positive correlation with economic prosperity. The more educated a person is, the more chance he has to be successful in any field of his works. Long ago most people worked in rice field as farmers. They used their muscles to do the works. At the time not many farmers had good education. Most people couldn’t read and write. Under such condition, their living situation is stagnant and they often faced big problem when flood or drought happened. They didn’t know what to do. Later on, people had education. They invented machines and better tools to do their works. Soon the living situation changed a lot. Later on, less and less people work in rice field anymore. Machines and modern tools enabled the farmers to work more efficient and effective. Instead, today most people work in providing services. They don’t use their physical strength anymore. They use their brain.

Most work today requires high level skills. This is where education plays its role. In such condition, the more educated you are, the more successful you are. We can easily point out professions such as doctors, politicians, entrepreneurs, and artists that have higher salaries compare to janitors, farmers, or porters. In the level of country, Singapore, a small country has a lot better living condition compare to most countries in Asia and Africa that have less education level. Singapore has very little natural resources but it has high human resources due to better education.

So, it’s easy for me to conclude that education is very importance to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. Therefore it’s very important for us to pay attention to our education. We must prioritize education over anything else, for example entertainment. Let us use our time and money to improve our education, let us play less games and read more books for even better future. Because in the future more and more low skill level works will disappear, if we don’t prepare ourselves with proper education, we will be obsolete and useless, we will be unsuccessful and suffer the consequences.

Thank you so much for your attention.