Nowadays when education system is amended and improved by adding more years spent in school, people become overwhelmed. Spending around 10 years attending school proves that education can really be a long process. But a rewarding outcome awaits us for this investment.

Intelligence can be something that is innate to a person. But a talent not well supplemented and cultivated by knowledge can lose its potential.

Education at paced with this world’s progressive advancement is a tool to develop this potential. Of course, we can always say that we can learn from experience. But, think of this, how about when we have the backup basic knowledge before going through that ‘experience’?

Education supplied us the basic that we should know from the simple mathematical equation to the laws of nature. Knowledge that we acquire can help us create a different perspective to alter what we are going through in that ‘experience’. We can lessen our number of tries for whatever we are doing or we can create something useful out of it.

In this age and time that we can find almost everything by just clicking the internet, let us not forget the importance of education. It is the institution that backed up the advancement of the world we are in now. It is what prepared us to face the real world.

If ever you are finding yourself, questioning how long you have to attend school, think if how equipped you can become instead. Let us not only be in this world, let be a part of it and contribute.

By: Melissa D. Dela Rosa | Samal National High School | Samal, Bataan