Why Is Education Important?

Presentation by Ben Tam & Fiona Wong

Education transcends living a healthier lifestyle

•  Education promotes higher income so that people can afford better food

•  Promotes awareness to take care of one self

•  Our daily consumption has long-term effects

•  Education is linked to having healthier relationships

Education promotes ethical values that help make the world more peaceful

•  Reduces prejudices through personal experience and interactions rather than believing in misinformed and stereotyped portrayal of other cultures and religion

•  Allows individuals to cross cultural and language barriers

•  Influences open-mindedness

Education instills positive values in younger generations

•  Keeping individuals away from being incarcerated and illegal activities

•  Education is the force that allows individuals to reach their potential, to dream bigger dreams, and to be more fully engaged with a much bigger world

•  The more educated an individual is, the better career options they can have in the future

Education bridges the differences between social classes and genders

•  1974, women made 59% of median annual earnings as percentage of men’s median annual earnings for full-time.

•  In 2014, women made 79% of median annual earnings as percentage of men’s median annual earnings for full-time.

•  This difference was made possible for higher earning job opportunities for women

•  It opens a whole world of opportunities for the poor so that they may have an equal shot at well paying jobs. Education also plays a major role in women empowerment and allows the ideals of feminism

Education leads to happiness abound: stable, balanced, self-dependent life

•  Being self dependent and financially stable, is necessary for an individual to have a stable mind and to feel good from within

•  Being educated allows an individual to have a better understanding of the world

•  Education allows people to know that they can make a difference

•  Education can turn a persons dreams into reality and builds self-confidence