This I Believe

I believe that education is a life long learning process. The more a person learns and educates him or her self, their awareness of the world around them increases. I recall being a young man, and hating learning things. I would be frustrated with the process, hating trying to master or recall some fact that I deemed to be completely random. In addition, school was very easy and I never felt challenged. Because of these reason, I did not like school and was very bored for many years. The older I became the more I began to enjoy my formal education; however, when I was in High School I did not enjoy it because I enjoyed learning—I enjoyed the social environment of High School. It wasn’t until my college career that I began to realize the importance of education. There is a simple truth in the old adage of “knowledge equals power,” because it does. Since I entered into college, I began to realize the importance of education, or simply put learning. Therefore, I try to learn something new every day. I’ve realized the importance of learning something new in my every day conversations. The more knowledgeable a person becomes, the more a person is admired in society. But more importantly, I found myself having intellectual conversations based on random facts I began to accumulate and formed my own opinions on. As society develops into a more diverse society, especially intellectually diverse, it has become more of a necessity for people to transform into becoming life long learners. When learning is a process that begins as a child and ends at death, it becomes a lifelong journey that is an exciting adventure. In conclusion, with the availability of technology there is no excuse for people to stop learning. If I can learn at least one new fact, idea, or thing for the rest of my life, I would accumulate a vast amount of knowledge and live each day with excitement in anticipation of what I would learn each day, each fact building upon previous knowledge shaping my opinions and beliefs about life, politics, history, and everything in between. Furthermore, learning is shaped by the various situations that people encounter every day—both good and bad alike. It is this informal education that shapes the beliefs and attitudes of people, and direct society to alleviating injustices and beginning to form an individual’s individual tranquility. Therefore, education is a life long learning process that is shaped by formal and informal education. This is what I believe.