by Cody Hodge

Created on: February 19, 2009

Do you really need an education to succeed in life? Do you need money to buy stuff? Do we need to eat? Of course you need an education in order to succeed in life. Now, I won't sit here and say that you need to go to school, because some people drop out, and yet still end up being successful in life, but you cannot succeed without some sort of education. They say that knowledge is power, and that is a very true statement.

Without knowledge, you cannot survive in life. How do you tie your shoes if you don't know how? How do you walk if you don't learn how? How do you get in the shower if you don't know how to turn the knobs? These all require some sort of learning, and yet these are just the first few things that you need to do in the beginning of the day. If you need to learn even these basic skills just to make it out of the house, of course you need to learn to be a success.

Nobody who is stupid is ever going to make it in life. If you cannot think for yourself, and if you can' make decisions then you will never succeed in life. You learn how to make decisions, and to think critically by expereince, or in other words what you learned from your past. Again, you have to learn in order to make it in life, and you have to be somewhat educated in life in order to be successful.

What level of education do you need in order to succeed? I think that you need to learn how to spell, do basic math, and a little bit about history, and how to handle money. Other than that, your education is all about what you want to learn, and you want to use your education. I can't tell you how to learn, other than you need to learn in order to be successful.

I have learned as much from reading Wikipedia for a couple hours as I have sitting in a classroom. Learning is not a standard operation, and learning is as unique as the individual learning it. However, you will fail in life if you don't learn, and get an education somehow, and get information about the world to your brain. Without education, you are nothing, and if you don't learn, you truly are a fool.

You need an education, because knowledge is power. The man who can't learn is doomed to failure, and those who don't know the past are doomed to repeat it. Learning is fun too, and the more you know about the world, the more you power you have to understand it and manipulate it to your advantage. Learn as much as you can, because it will only make you a better person for it.

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