As the year comes to an end I find it fitting that my final monthly blog will be discussing the importance of education. Education as a whole takes many different forms whether in the forms of literature and math or in the form of how society works through first hand experience. In The Power of One, Peekay prided himself in the education that her received from Doc and he used it through the rest of his life. In The Invisible Man, The Narrator gained a first hand education of how society thinks and he used his speeches to not call the people to action but to educate them and make them think. The Narrator understood the importance of education and so used it in what he considered his life's purpose. Even in The Fountainhead where Howard Roark rejected the formal education of a college, he still understood that he needed an education to be an architect so he took almost every job involved in building a building and educated himself through doing. The importance of education is still relevant today because our society goes to depraved areas in Africa and South America to build schools because one thing our society can agree on is the importance of an education.
In my opinion education is the backbone of our society, without humanity as a whole would have nothing to keep it together. That's why humans have a natural urge to learn, because we need to or we will fall apart. We as humans learn new things everyday, whether that be that pressing the roof of your mouth relieves a brain freeze or that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, I believe that everything we learn helps us in someway. Nelson Mandela once said "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" and I believe him, because everything that I learned in high school, from the books I read to the formulas I learned, had made me a person for all the better.
