THE POINT OF EDUCATION IS TO ENABLE YOUNG PEOPLE TO GET A GOOD, WELL PAID JOB-by Marta Ros

ESSAY: 

The point of education is to enable young people to get a good, well-paid job.

In my opinion, getting a job, isn’t or shouldn’t be the point of educating young people. The purpose should be everyone having an education, a regular base of knowledge and after that, getting a good job. Everyone being educated is very important, we need it for everything. Nowadays routines, also socializing, being respectful…If everyone got a proper education there would be no problems among citizens.

Of course, some people may be against this, and, in the end, I think education is just to get good results, go to university, study a good degree and then getting a well-paid job.

However that may be successful for some people but at the end they don’t have that much education, because they’ve only been educated for their job. In addition, schools should also spend more hours teaching students more useful subjects, like Maths, English, Science…It’s not that other subjects like physical education or music aren’t useful or educational, pupils should also learn those.

Science is really important and schools have decreased the hours of this subject in the students timetable. The number of people studying science degrees have decreased in the last few years.

People who argue against my opinion probably think we only want education so that in the future we can get money, but it’s more than just that. Everyone deserves to get an education even though, maybe in the future they don’t get a job. Everyone should be able to read, write or add up any quantity, but that’s imposible if they aren’t educated.

In conclusion, I think the point of education isn’t just to enable young people to get a well-paid job. It’s also for everyone to have at least a mínimum level of knowledge, and after that trying for everyone to have a good and, possibly, well-paid job.