PRAISE TO EDUCATION

 

I will begin this assignment with a kind word from someone who was not.
After bread, education is the first need of the people.
This was said by Danton on the platform of the Convention.

Mark Twain said it differently: 'It's all in the education.

I am convinced that every self-respecting parent wants nothing better for their children than to have a good education.
That is why, as we are experiencing today, parents are sacrificing part of their lives to ensure that their children have a better life through a better education.

I could note a series of quotes that would confirm the importance given to education. And when we learn who the author of these quotes is, all we have to do is respect what they teach us.

And for those who claim to compare themselves to Einstein, note that he said: "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education

It is the very role of a nation to ensure that its citizens have the education necessary to be competitive, and there is little doubt that education is important to a country's competitiveness in and of itself.
A high level of education hardly seems to be enough.
Industries are flocking to sites on the U.S.-Mexico border, where wages are low but poor, uneducated Mexicans can easily be trained to do assembly-line work.

If education were the primary factor, Russia, Cuba and Holland with reasonably educated populations would have stronger economies.

When one compares the German education with the French, one finds that the young Frenchman is not brought up to be objective, but is instilled with a conceivably subjective view as to the importance of the political and cultural greatness of his homeland. These words are from the economist Robert Reich

According to the Talmud, education is not a one-way street, for it is said: I have learned much from my teachers; I have learned much from my friends; and I have learned even more from my students.

And this word of our dear Socrates: Education leads to the continuity of its own discovery. Curious thing.
Did I say curiosity?
Here is what André Maurois said about it: All modern education teaches us on the contrary the excellence of curiosity. Science... after all, what is it but a long and systematic curiosity?

Many years ago, I read a wonderful book by Daniel J Boorstin who was in charge of the Washington Library. He said a wonderful phrase: education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

I come back to our master Einstein who will never stop enriching us. Education is what we have left when we have forgotten everything we learned in school.
Let's remember that the wonderful things learned in school are the work of many generations, produced by the enthusiastic effort and endless work of every country in the world.

All this is in our hands today as a received heritage that we must honor, add to it and one day pass it on to our children. Is this not a way to achieve immortality and give meaning to our lives? The reality, however, is less smiling.

We all know that a college education in the United States is not for everyone.
Just yesterday, as I was leaving the synagogue, a father I asked about his children , said that he didn't see how he could afford to pay $30,000 for each of his two boys if they were accepted.
I felt sad and realized that so many other parents share the same prediction.

Could it be that one day, in the United States as in many other countries, university education will be free and therefore affordable to all?
How can it be that such a rich country does not realize the importance that education will bring to its development?
One wonders if a capitalist system does not prefer a partially ignorant population to make uninformed consumers?

It saddens me to think so, but the fact remains that nothing seems to be done to change the status quo. I am looking forward to see men and women, rich in education, to stand up and show the way.