I have the ultimate reason to why do we need education.
Education is like food and shelter. It is considered basic to one’s life. While food is for health and shelter for the body, education is for the mind.
Education enhances one’s knowledge and as the saying goes; knowledge is power. However, power that a person posses will be dependent on how an individual uses it. A person could ultimately choose to use knowledge and power for the benefit of themselves, for others or to be simply used in the destruction of mankind. Education is the knowledge of putting one’s potentials to maximum use. Education makes man a right thinker. It tells man how to think and how to make proper decision.
This is where education should be given importance. As education is geared towards individual development, such development should eventually transform into social development. For individuals and nations, it is the key to creating, applying, and spreading knowledge, and thus to the development of dynamic, globally competitive economies.
It is one important policy that a government of a country must promote, as education is the only means to understand its history, culture and to some extent the religion. Education is the only means to unite a country, and the people as a nation. This is to say that education is a must if a nation aspires to achieve growth and development and more importantly to sustain it.
The importance of education cannot be neglected by any nation. And in today’s world, the role of education has become even more vital. It is an absolute necessity for economic and social development of any nation.
