Reflection Paper #18

If it were not for Education, where would many of our leaders be today? We have such great leaders in medicine, science, law and education. Education was the vehicle to a better life for these leaders. Higher education has helped people enjoy greater benefits such as with higher levels of savings, they have a better quality of life for themselves and for their children, they have hobbies, better decision making on things and leisure activities. It also gives you a better understanding of our society and gives you awareness to the social injustices around us. In your awareness to social injustice, you become involved in certain organizations or causes and you get yourself involved in helping out. Colleges encourage their students and make them well informed on how they can get involved, this helps you, the student on how to emphasize your civic responsibility. Colleges want their students once they graduate to have a sensibility towards their community and their needs in order to create changes. Continued education has helped women out in our modern society. As the divorce rate, rose women saw themselves single with children and no good means of support. This drove women back to school to either get or finish their degrees. We have many successful women in all sorts of careers today. The Women's movement has helped with this. Women are now doctors, lawyers, judges you name the profession women are involved. Education today has changed tremendously from what it was in Roman and Colonial times. There were not as many schools as we have now, back then kids were taught in homes. Education was not as important then as it is now. Back in those times education was basically for boys only and the girls were taught how to keep a good house. The role of girls in education has changed significantly and they have taken up a major role.