Education offers the greatest opportunity to discover who you are and helps you to a very large extent to become it.

 The truth remains that the relevance of education is currently diminishing due to its inability to produce the envisaged result. The consistent misconception has led many to lose sight of what school is supposed to achieve. This has made us lose confidence in academics because it doesn’t give the result we expect to what we think it is meant to achieve. Little do we know that a lot of changes are happening with us.

The school has been tagged as one of the greatest barriers to making money and living comfortably. However, in some countries, especially those in Africa, an average family believes that school is an express ticket to being successful. Success can only be achieved when the right processes are followed and school is meant to make you prepared to adequately follow the process towards success.

Education is meant to enhance a lot of factors that are compulsory to be successful, those factors will be discussed here;

Basically, Education means a change in ones’ conduct, it enhances your mind and thinking strength so one can calculate better odds and alternatives to the problem one faces. Mind development and upgrade is not a function of age, rather, by subjecting the brain to the consistent acquisition of information it gets stronger and can work better irrespective of age, and this is the primary thing school does. School offers courses that subject our brain to consistent work that can develop the mind. Try comparing your childhood problem-solving abilities with how you can solve a problem when you are faced with it currently. Education develops your mind, so you can see and utilize opportunities that fetch income and wealth, not necessarily to provide it firsthand. An apprentice who is diligent in his work can be rich, it’s just a matter of time. Compared to a learned person, he can see opportunities and utilize them even when others cannot, this is a function of his mind.

Education stimulates innovative and critical thinking, outspokenness, and communication skill. It’s expected that at the end of every level of education, individuals who are educated should have a certain amount of productivity and creativity that can benefit them at least and those around them, this implies that they can think for themselves. Here
is what the UCL school of management thinks about Education. Self-development is what every student should strive for, that is the aim of education, not money. You can make money even without schooling properly, school and money are not mutually exclusive, but school helps you to see and utilize opportunities that make you more relevant in your field. Therefore it is a very good head start to success.

What do you think? How has education helped you?