Education is always considered as the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, belief, knowledge and habit. It is very essential to human being, as we go through life we need education to cope up in the demand of our society. Every individual has a right to have a fair and proper education and it is recognized by our government, including at the global level.
For some parents education is not everything especially those children who belong to a low class family. Many of our children nowadays are not attending school because they are force to earn money for a living in order to reach out their basic needs. All they want to do is to help their parents to assist their financial matter, not knowing the fact that this act lead to a child labor which refers to the employment of children in any work that deprives children of their childhood and interferes their ability to attend regular school, and that is mentally, physically, socially or morally harmful. On the other hand organizations such as parent’s associations, parents’ councils and other agencies provide parents with support and information about children’s education.
The importance of education is undeniable for every individual .It goes with saying that education plays such a rudimentary role on our society that we cannot even imagine a life without it. It is a major factor that will help us to combat all difficulties in life. Parents as well as teachers and community should work hard in mounting education for the youth. I still remember what a Tibetan proverb once said that “A child without education is like a bird without wings.”
If we are aspiring for a change, we start it within ourselves. Never surrender in achieving your goal to attain the quality of life we need for ourselves, family and society to be educated also mean that you are a productive citizen of the country and all because of education, just like what Nelson Mandela believed that “Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world”.
By: ROWENA F. APAYA | T – I | Capunitan Elementary School
