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Introduction
Education is more than just learning from books, and it is a shame that a lot of
schools do not see that it is more than just a curriculum and school score. A good
education can teach a child how to learn so that the child may take up independent
learning as an adult. Education may also teach a child how to reason so that a child
does not grow up to be ignorant.
Persuasive point 1:
The biggest selling point for education in our society is the fact that it helps
people learn “how” to learn. It is not about the knowledge they accumulate, it is the
way a child is taught how to “learn” things. A child may come away from school not
knowing a lot of the course, but if that child has been taught how to learn, then that
child may become an adult that learns everything he or she needs in life. Otherwise,
that child may grow up to be a person that cannot see the obvious because he orshe
cannot reason and consciously learn new things.
Persuasive point 2
Education teaches people how to reason, and if they are taught how to reason
well, then they help subdue their own thoughts of ignorance. For example, there are
lots of posts and websites on the Internet about childhood vaccinations and how
dangerous they are. Ignorant people than never learned how to reason will look at
them, believe them and support them. If a person is taught how to reason then he or
she will know how to recognize empirical evidence.
Persuasive point 3
That person would look at all the people in the US that have had childhood
injections (most of them) and then look at all the people with autism. They would
reason that if childhood vaccinations caused autism then most of the people in the US
would have autism. If a person is taught how to reason then that person may see how
people that smoke seem more likely to develop emphysema than people that do not
smoke. They would then reason there is a link between smoking and emphysema.
This sort of reasoning can be taught in schools, and if children are not taught it then
they walk around risking their children’s lives by not vaccinating them, and walk around
smoking because their daddy smoked for years and it never hurt him.
Persuasive point 4
Conclusion
If education is not seen as important, then one day it will just be all about school
scores and hitting the factors of a curriculum. There will be a day when children start
to hate learning because school put them off it for life (this already happens in some
cases). Plus, without education teaching people how to reason things out and teaching them how to separate what is fact from what is faulty evidence, then our society will
become more and more ignorant until a smarter country simply marches over and
takes our country from under out ignorant noses.
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