Thursday, January 5, 2012

Extra Credit Response

   Respond to the following quote:
             "Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom"


     First of all, I believe this quote has a meaning that everyone can connect to. I believe the quote means that having an education is a very important concept, thus making it a key that most people might not have. Education is very important though many students do not notice it. It will help you in the future of being a parent, getting a job, or just living throughout life. Having an education is something many people did not have back then. 
     A key is something that people have for specific things, and so not all people have it for the same thing. An education is a key that everyone can have, either meaning as a literal key or meaning as a key to help with in life. This then opens the discussion of freedom. Freedom is also another thing many people did not have back then. This includes freedom of religion, speech, press, and everyday human right freedoms. So freedom is something big and something gold, and so if there was a golden door of freedom, then education would be one of the keys needed to unlock one of its many locks.
     Education, as I said before, is something many people back then did not have. If you were a woman, you didn't have a full education and if you made it to college, you were rich. However, if you were a slave you had no education. Being a woman or a slave back then would not give you the right or the freedom to be educated.
     Being educated would make others consider you smart or even intelligent. So education itself is also gold. It gives us knowledge; the knowledge to do things with confidence because we know we understand. And so with education come more choices and therefore more freedom to pursue one's life ambition.


Sources:
http://www.123rf.com/photo_3213693_education-is-the-key-written-on-a-chalkboard.html

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