Summary of the Text: Why Go To University?
Why Go To University?
-Moti Nishani
1. University education helps someone to get a good job and other opportunity. The better educated you are the higher your income tends to be. It is said chief wealth of a nation is not its hand, Natural resources or population but skillful people. Educated people can construct a gold mine in the desert land.
2. An educated person is more likely to solve difficulties and problems in a rational manner. Education teaches us many other practical applications.
3. Educated people are more likely to enjoy good health. They have better health consciousness than uneducated people. An educated person is more likely to lead a meaningful life and is less vulnerable to stress-related diseases.
4. Educated person exercises his mind more than an uneducated person. The way we take care of our body by exercising, we should also exercise our mind. It is said that a sound mind is necessary to live a comfortable life.
5. Educated person is respected in every culture in the world. A person is handsome, kind and physically fit but if is uneducated, he will be considered as difficult or inferior. Education makes people self-confident.
6. Education makes people curious. Basically uneducated people are less curious. Curiosity leads us to the critical and creative world. So educated people are more creative and critical than uneducated people.
7. We can expand our social horizon wider by going to university. We meet people from different places and cultures. We become friends and share experiences.
8. Education increases our personal freedom. It makes us less dogmatic about our own beliefs and more tolerant of the belief of others. It destroys the narrow-minded walls of our minds.
9. Education tells us about our existence in the universe. It informs us that all human beings are members of the same species. It also warns that any species will extinct if we can't modify as per the environment.
10. There is a direct relationship between democracy and education. Democracy requires educated citizens to flourish. We must educate ourselves if we want to establish permanent democracy in our country.