Education is an essential medium that is advantageous for us in the present-day world to succeed and prosper, as it facilitates aid in the solution of the day-to-day problems we faced in life. I believe that the knowledge, skills, attitude and values we gained through education – be it through formal instruction at school or spontaneous learning outside the four corners of the academe – enable our finite potentials to be optimally developed and applied by means of our incessant search for truth and understanding through education, and the persistent training of our human minds. This unlocks ingresses of opportunities whichallowus to achieve better visions in career development, and successively offering not only financial but also intellectual prosperity.
I deemed that the assistance and support that education offers us today is paramount, and may be tantamount to the things listed down as our physiologic needs. Every system, every principle, every device and every law are products of education. In the advent of using currencies to avail our basic commodities, no one today should be ignorant of the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; thus mathematics is thought at school – and at home. Everyone should also understand the importance of oxygen-carbon dioxide cycle for us to be more aware and concerned about the lower life forms like animals and plants; thus science has been one of the focus of our empirical quest for meaning through education. Analogously, every area of study: social science, history, arts, philosophy, ethnology, physics, trigonometry, geometry, and others, will always make their impact to our daily lives as we outlive through education. Hence, I can say that nowadays, education equals a well-lived life.
Likewise, education also determines not only how well we live today, but also how much better the future will turn out for us. All the products of our interminable but sensible studies will empower our aptitudes to be at their optimum levels so that we can utilize them in seizing opportunities and making probabilities happen. This is why there are engineers, there are architects, there are doctors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, social workers, accountants, pharmacists, entrepreneurs, managers, leaders, and others; everyone of them has maximize their individual potentials through education – be it through formal instruction inside the academe or through the spur-of-the-moment wisdom acquired freestanding from the tangible school. For most of them, education opens window of possibilities that made them achieve nobler prospects in their career and professions, and successively offering them not only financial self-sufficiency but also the sense of self-actualization as they go through life.
Henceforth, I appeal to the younger generations to make the most of your schooling. I also urge everyone to teach the youth well and be kind to them, for they may be facing more difficult struggles in the future, and that education may be the only essential medium they can exploit to live and succeed in their lifetime – as what we are doing today, living and succeeding through education.
By: HAZEL JOY S. MAÑALAC | Clerk II | Bonifacio Camacho National High School | Abucay, Bataan
