Education is Taken for Granted in America

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Here in America every single child is sent to school starting at the age of five years old for kindergarten, and sometimes as early as two years old for pre-school and continue on to get an education late into their twenties, some even going on to take classes the rest of their lives. Education in America is something that is readily available and even is required by law, but taken for granted by many children. On flip side third world countries often do not have schools or public education mandated by government, and most times it is not even available when most children yearn for it. Education is taken for granted in America, and in third world countries where education is almost completely absent something can be learned from their determination to further their knowledge.

In America we start going to school as early as two years old and are mandated by the government to stay in school until usually the age of 18, and after that school is necessary to continue on with to be successful with a career. Most students constantly think of ways not to go to school, and fight every step of the way not realizing what a great thing we really do have available at our fingertips. Students have to pay for education in college, and it is not cheap, but the first sign of a class being cancelled a student with rejoice. I was once told by one of my college professors that education seems to be the only thing that people are happy for when they don’t get the entire worth of what they are paying for. From personal experience I can agree with this joy of a class being cancelled. I have found that I get caught up in the luxuries of life or the feeling of the need to be lazy, and thinking of all the better things (or what I think is better) I c...

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...is other nations about not just taking what we have as an education system for granted, but actually wanting to better ourselves.

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