People often confuse school with getting an education. Yes, school is important, but why education is important is so much more obvious. School is difficult and can work both ways. Unfortunately, the complex environment that is a school does not provide the same experience for all students. Teachers handle a number of students in infinitely different ways, benefiting some students more than others. Education often happens outside the school, in life itself.
In truth, almost all of education comes from outside the school environment. This can be basic and specific things, such as, crossing the street or cooking an omelet. However, it is more importantly things like how to behave in a room full of strangers, and other “unwritten” rules and practices. This is not something you pick up in a book; this is the sort of education that happens in childhood as you learn how to behave. Without education, we would never learn how to get along in our society and function as normal adults.
For parents, this is the main reason why education is important. Parents are single-handedly, and by a wide margin, the most influential people in a person’s life for roughly the first 12 years of his or her life. For this reason, it is crucial that parents provide the essentials, food, shelter, etc., but also the education children need to become adults. Parents provide kids with food and shelter, but also need to give teach them life tools about thinking, caring for others, and work ethics.
Unfortunately not all parents see eye to eye on this issue of why education is so important. They trump on and on about getting a good education, as if it was something out there somewhere. It’s not. It is up to parents to begin their childrens education at home, teaching them to think smart, work hard, and be compassionate for others. It is perhaps the most important educational system for children.
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