Education: The Importance Of Education

To define someone 's knowledge, a degree does not do that and never will define someone’s knowledge. A person’s education comes from different resources and their life adventures instead of coming from the years spent in a classroom. Education is being aware of your own surroundings and learning from the little things that life can teach somebody. Something that is free is so much more valuable in the long run than an education that causes you to be thousands of dollars in debt. An education comes with the idea of knowing that someone will have something big in life if you fight for a good life and not give up. Education comes from school, life, parents, etc. combined onto one brain for higher education.

Education received in school is only

Decades ago knowledge was viewed to build males up to become the citizens a country not needed but wanted. A citizen should benefit themselves before their country, but people believed that was wrong. “Once the citizen knows the shape, the narrative, of his civilization, he is able to locate new things-and other civilizations-in relation to it.” (Hart 130) Once a citizen has the knowledge to help its country and people, then it is believed that they accomplished their goal. The goal now is to build a career, but the goal decades ago was to build a

In the past education started off by teaching males how to become proud citizens of their country, yet it was not focused on women. Women have been viewed differently in education and life in general since the day they existed. If there is anything we as women can blame for the type of education, we receive is ignorance. “And the ideology of the education you have just spent four years acquiring in a women’s college has been largely, if not entirely, the ideology of white male supremacy, a construct of male subjectivity.” (Rich 72) Our whole lives we are being taught something that was meant to be taught to males. Since the day we are born we are looked at with a lower standard in education, sex, career, and life. Women are not meant to be taught the same thing as men are, yet we spend over 20 years learning something that was meant to be taught for males to become citizens. “You have the training and the tools to do independent research…this is a privilege, yes, but only if you not give up as a woman, you have been historically viewed and still are viewed as existing, not in your own right, but in the service of men.” (Rich 73) We are viewed as ignorant women that fall for the trap of what men want us to do and decide for us to do. As Rich said, “I suggest that not anatomy, but enforced ignorance, has been a crucial key to our powerlessness.” Women are being treated differently then men, we see