Sumber: educacion.gob.ecHere, we share four reasons why pursuing education can advance your life.
First of all Having education helps us to teach necessary morals, good manners and wise ethics. In addition, education makes us a role model in society, when our people need us to guide them to the right way and wisely decisions. In fact, being educated is an advantage to help our people and build a good society.
“makes us alive. No doubt a society is a place where every kind of creatures live together but the difference between educated and uneducated can be easily identified.” I truly agree with the saying of Aristotle that.
Secondly, Self-confidence is the modality for someone to go out and blend in society. Education gives you the knowledge and it can give the confidence to express your opinions and speak your mind. Besides, confidence helps us manage specific tasks, tackle life’s challenges and maintain positive stands. Additionally, having self-confidence is typically based on proper education. Accordingly, self-confidence makes us aware of how well we perform a task or a range of actions.
“National education tends to develop the skills and good character also dignified civilization in the context of educating the national life, aims to develop the students’ potential in order to become human being which is in faith and fear to the God, have good moral, healthy, knowledgeable, skilled, creative, independent, and become democratic and responsible citizen.”
Thirdly, the mandate of the National Education System Law No. 20 of 2003 above, implies that education is not only to make the Indonesian people intelligent but also to building characters. Other than that, building characters also helps in developing a moral code for interactions with the other people.
lattermost, education isn't just a piece of paper. If you think that going to college or any other higher education is costly, then think again. Having to spend money in order for you to earn degree and knowledge who helps you more in the future. There will be more job opportunities that you can apply for compared to when you don’t have a degree. You'll also become accustomed to interacting with a wide variety of people. These social skills can serve you well in the job search even if the job you want doesn't require a specific degree. Therefore, continuing your education is an important if you want to secure your future. All in all, as discussed above there are a lot of positive traits of having education; such as having a good society, having self-confidence, building characters, and get good job.
Author: Citra Ayu Diah Pitaloka (Department of English Teaching, PGRI Madiun University)
