Being educated is an important issue in the global society of the 21st century. The majority of people in developed countries begin to learn to read, write and count before they go to school. Later in school, they are told that their grades should be high enough so they could go to college or the university. Studying at the university is considered to be prestigious and admired. People spend enormous amounts of money to provide their children with the best education they can achieve. The role and the importance of education in the modern world is a subject of this essay.
In the world of 21st century, about 67 million children in developing countries have no possibility to attend primary school. The education is not free and considered to be a privilege of people who have enough costs. This refers to a primary education as well. Children begin to work as soon as they begin to understand how to perform the simplest labor functions. They work in fields and factories, look after their younger siblings while their parents are working, they are involved in street and market trade, they deliver things and work as porters, etc. They are involved in everything that can provide their family with money that is mostly spent on a simple food. The parents, not being educated themselves, often take education as something excessive and unnecessary. In other cases, parents want their children to go to school, but they simply lack costs for books, clothes and writing materials. As a result, a high percentage of adults in these countries are illiterate and form the society driven by superstitious, often barbaric traditions, creating a serious background for humanitarian catastrophes, violence, epidemics. Countries with the high level of illiteracy will never succeed in the modern world.
On the other hand, developed countries tend to educate as many children as possible. The elementary and secondary education is obligatory and free in the majority of them. The image of educated person is widely popularized. There are many supporting educational programs dealing not only with children and adolescents but also with adult people. Graduating from school is not only admired – it is obligatory in the majority of cases. However, it is not enough for the prospective future. The knowledge and the experience gained in colleges and universities determine the way of life, put the person on the highest social level, provide with the opportunity of getting higher salary, broaden the chances to better, exciting, secure and independent life. The implementation of obligatory and available education on the level of state home policy results in higher life standards expectation and developed society that can choose and determine its way of development.
The high percentage of educated people forms high communication, cultural and behavior standards of society. They have more interests to share; they gain firm and diverse background that tends to better understanding and interaction with people from other countries and of other nations, thus expanding the possibilities of the individual and improving country’s international image. As a rule, educated people see the broader specter of possibilities and outcomes of the situation than uneducated, and, thus, more ways of action. Education is a moving force for science, culture, medicine, and technology development; as well as it provides raising the morals standards.
Education is a very important issue in the modern world considering the many aspects like extremely fast technology and social development. Educated people gain more possibilities to fulfill their ideas and improve their way of life, as well as to choose their way of personal development.