<p>Hey guys. This is my second essay. I hope this one's better than the last time.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=222748%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=222748</a></p>
<p>I tried to give out good examples. I got this prompt from internet and it's actually decent.</p>
<p>Directions: Think carefully about the issue presented in the following paragraph and respond to the assignment below. You have 25 minutes.</p>
<p>Epictetus, who lived from 55 AD-135AD, claimed, "Only the educated are free." Just under 2,000 years later Benjamin Franklin, one of the most influential founding fathers of America, said, "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Unfortunately, many people are still dropping out of high school and not pursuing a college degree. Maybe these great thinkers were wrong?</p>
<p>Assignment: How do you feel about the idea that education is not necessarily as important as the two people mentioned in the passage above claim it to be? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>My essay:</p>
<p>Is education an answer to a good and stable life as Epictetus and Benjamin Franklin believed? Although there are still many people who become successful without much education, education exists as a very important thing in life. I agree with Epictetus and Benjamin Franklin ------ education or investment in knowledge is vital.</p>
<p>First, more and more people try to at least get high school diplomas. Unlike people in past, people with high school diplomas can earn more money than people without high school diplomas. This is why many institutions do commericals about getting high school diplomas or symbol of completed and necessary education. I also remember reading from statistics by famous research that this is indeed true.</p>
<p>Second, importance of education also appeared in Southeast Asia ----- China, Korea, and Japan. Through the history, the military and aristocrats continued to battle on gaining king's trusts. In most cases, the aristocrats won the king's trusts because they read more books to suggest better things. While military focused on actions, the aristocrats ------ people who persued further education by wealth ------- dealt with treaty and deals. Even back then, the education determined where one would be.</p>
<p>Third, my civics teacher was an inspiring example. Through the biography report for English class, he told me that college was main turning point of his life. As a student, he was intelligent yet unmotivated student. He didn't even consider high life after high school much but his acceptance to the college awakened him to become a teacher. Clearly, if he hadn't gone to the college, he probably didn't stand where he is now.</p>
<p>Unquestionably, education stands as a vital tool that can greatly change people's life. No human is perfect to know everything about the world and himself. Only the education can lead to further road to better "human." After all, life is a continuous journey of learning.</p>
<p>Hope this is better than the last one.. :-D</p>