Education explains the difference between the right and the wrong and helps inculcate good virtues. What is the importance of education to youths?
Youth is that phase of life when you dream big, hope for only the best to happen to you and look forward to a bright tomorrow. It is that phase when nothing seems impossible; you want to be successful and you believe you will. You feel you know exactly what you want from life and you believe you will get it. During these years, life looks bright and beautiful. You feel you can win the world. It’s an important phase in your life – youth – when you turn into someone different. Turning from a child to an adult is a transition – a big transition. There’s added confidence, added responsibility, there’s growth, there’s life – a new life. It’s when you begin to understand yourself, discover your potential, know when opportunities knock your door and dream of only success. It’s the time to reinvent yourself and redesign your personality. And that’s where education has a big role to play.
Education is the best tool to bring a positive change in society, to develop a generation of responsible individuals and contribute to the development of good human beings. The fundamental purpose of education is to gain knowledge, understand the forms of proper conduct and acquire technical competency in specific subject(s). Education serves as the means to develop oneself physically, mentally and socially. Here’s how education makes a difference in one’s life.
 The importance of education manifests itself in the need to cultivate youths to become mature individuals. Youth is the growing stage of their lives. It is during these years that they develop from kids to become mature and responsible individuals. It is during this phase that they make career decisions and begin pursuing their goals.
 Education should consist of training and development in their field(s) of interest. It should help the youths define their career objectives, decide what they want from life and enable them to achieve what they wish to. Education to youths must aim at helping them build a skill set and work on the skills acquired to develop subject expertise. It should include courses that can help them develop a career. The education should open doors for new opportunities in different fields. It should help the youths find avenues to pursue their interests. It should enable them to venture into new fields and explore new areas. Education must help them set reachable goals and realize them.

By: MARY ANN N. SACDALAN | T-II | ABUCAY NORTH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL