What is education? \u00a0Education is the instrument for upward mobility in our everyday lives. \u00a0According to Webster\u2019s dictionary, education is the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge. \u00a0Education is the key to having a strong economy and a great nation. \u00a0Education is the key to success through all endeavors. \u00a0Whether it is driving a car or typing on the computer, you need some sort of education to get you through everyday life. \u00a0I believe that education means being taught and prepared for the future, it is a necessity for preserving a good society, and it is a never-ending cycle that lasts until the day you die.<\/p>\n
Education is a necessity in today\u2019s world in order to be successful. \u00a0Education starts at birth. \u00a0As soon as a child is born, the process of education begins. \u00a0This process runs through a lifetime. \u00a0People go to school to get more of a formal education and prepare for the future. \u00a0With good education one is at an advantage provide the support for their family and themselves. \u00a0Today, companies look for employees with at least one college degree. \u00a0Without one, one is limited to certain types of menial jobs, making it harder to support oneself and their family. \u00a0Without a sound education, it is well known that one may have to work twice as hard as the person with education, while they earn less money compared to their counterparts.<\/p>\n
Limited education could be responsible for a country\u2019s lack of socioeconomic development. \u00a0Every country is built on knowledge and education, and Sierra Leone is no exception. \u00a0The world\u2019s richest countries like the United States, Japan, and Germany all have literacy rates of 99.9%, while some of the poorer countries such as Bangladesh, and Ethiopia have a literacy rate of less than 45%. Sierra Leone has a literacy rate of less than 40%. \u00a0Below are some interesting statistics curled from World Development Indicators for various groups in Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n
It is not rocket science to suggest that the facts point to poverty and underdevelopment at causes of for the staggering low levels of literacy rates in Sierra Leone and other Third World countries. \u00a0l strongly believe that poverty is the reason for low literacy rates in Sierra Leone. \u00a0It should not be difficult to offer some people in Third World countries more opportunities for education, at least by engaging in a massive awareness campaign. \u00a0Studies reveal that life expectancy rates increase by as much as two years for every one percent increases in literacy. \u00a0This correlation means that literacy rates affect one\u2019s quality of life and longevity. \u00a0Being literate has a huge advantage on one\u2019s success, health and therefore longevity. Education opens the eyes and the minds to many things. \u00a0In fact education is the starting point on the way to success and therefore a happy life.<\/p>\n
While learning is life-long process, formal education should never stop. \u00a0I can still vividly remember my parents telling me not to touch the stove because it was hot. \u00a0One occasion, I did not listen to them. \u00a0One day, I touched the hot stove anyway after my mother had just finished cooking and I received some severe burn. \u00a0Naturally, after that day, I learned never to touch the stove again because I got burnt badly. \u00a0The learning process starts between the ages five and eighteen, because that is the time one attends to basic school, which is the period of the basic learning process.<\/p>\n
When I attended elementary school I learned a whole bunch of things that helped me out to keep going further in life. \u00a0After basic school one might want to go to college which is another four years of education. \u00a0But if one goes straight into the workforce, he or she would need to learn what to do in order to fulfill the duty of that job successfully. \u00a0What I am trying to say is that no one should ever quit gaining an education. \u00a0Even when one is unaware that he or she is learning, the process of learning probably continues. \u00a0One can gain knowledge from just watching his or her favorite television program. \u00a0This can end up being useful in the long run, and may help that person to be even more successful.<\/p>\n
Education today can come in a variety of sources. \u00a0It can come from music, teachers, friends, television, and other sorts of things. \u00a0You gained knowledge on a daily basis, to always prepare you for what is coming up. \u00a0To drive a car, you need to learn how to drive it, and so on. \u00a0Nobody can just jump in to an activity and start doing it without knowing what they are doing. \u00a0You need to be educated on what the task is on hand how to achieve success in it. \u00a0You also need to be educated to some degree, just to have a normal conversation with anybody, Sierra Leoneans must now reconsider how they think about education and change their nonchalant attitudes toward learning. \u00a0Government, parents, youths, women and men should change their attitudes and behaviors toward learning and education. \u00a0If we as Sierra Leoneans are to achieve its Millennium Goal challenges under President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma\u2019s Agenda for Change we must all help educate each other about education. \u00a0Education is a very important part of today\u2019s culture. \u00a0Everybody needs education to survive, and to live a healthy life.<\/p>\n
\u201cEducation is not preparation for life; education is life itself.\u201d – John Dewey<\/p>\n
By Nanette Thomas \u2013 National Coordinator and Second-in-Command, Attitudinal and Behavioural Change Secretariat <\/em><\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n What is education? \u00a0Education is the instrument for upward mobility in our everyday lives. \u00a0According to Webster\u2019s dictionary, education is the act or process of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,1],"tags":[769,11250,11251],"class_list":["post-34518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-education-in-sierra-leone","tag-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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