Day 20--How Important You Think Your Education Is

I find education a very important aspect in our lives. Coming from a relatively middle class family, I find education is a life-changing aspect. I can say this because the parents of my grandmother was illiterate. 

They lived in a colonial era, and suffered from the Japanese colonization. In fact, My grandma's father was a slave of Japan. He had a goal that his family must never suffers as he was, so He forced his children to go to school in an era where woman's role is to be "in the kitchen". So it was pretty peculiar to see my grandma went to school. Then she got an offer to became a nurse so she moved to my town, leaving her family. Met my grandpa, married him,and gave him 7 children. Life was hard and everybody was poor. But they worked as hard as they could to give enough food and the best education they could give to their children. And then here we are. I didn't mean to brag, but I feel very fortunate. We have cars, television, some latest electronic gadgets which can never be bought if my grandmother didn't go to school during her childhood. Or if my mom and uncles and aunts didn't study as well as they were.

So education should never be underestimated. People should never underestimate the power of school no matter horrible you academic life might be. As for the people who cheat, you guys are screaming to the court to execute the corruptor, and yet you still corrupt your own life. I mean, if you don't happy with the state of our country right now, why don't we educate ourselves to be the one who make the change? It's like to make our house clean, we have to clean our room first, don't we? It doesn't fix things if we just making a sarcastic comments about how dirty our room is without actually making an action.

To be educated doesn't always mean that you have to be good at maths or physics. Education also teaches your manners, consciously and unconsciously. People would stop littering if they know what  the danger of littering might bought into the world. Education changes our logic and perspective of thinking, and teaches us of how to express ourselves in order to be heard, which doesn't always involve violence.

Like I've said before, education can change the fate of poor families. Getting a better education means getting a better job than your parents. Getting a better job improves the life qualities of your family. Nutritionally, and academically. Improving your quality of life means giving a better life for your children. Then your children would do the same thing as you did to their children. See? It's an endless chain which connects one aspects to the others. 

So why do we, all next generation, still too lazy to study and cheat in tests while we know how important education is and loathe the act of corruption? If we don't start make a change of ourselves now, who will?