"For better or worse , education is a process that involves resvising the ideas , beliefs, and values people held in the past."
Education, which play a increasing crucial role in the contemporary society where there is so much information that it is difficult to distinguish the right and wrong, could builds or destroys people's lives by revising people's mind.
For one thing, good education provides us right way which take the place of the old incorrect one to recognize the world. It is not surprising that , for example, a kid believes the sun is running around us because everyday the sun rises from the east and declines from the west , while our earth seems stand still. Suitable education will tell him the truth: It is our earth itself rotates that made the day and night happens, rather than the sun goes around us and the fact is ,on the contrast, the earth goes around the sun. Through the good education the kid will know the right relationship about the sun and the earth.
For another, good education helps us to adapt the ever changing world by modifying people's thoughts. Nowadays, many people feel a certain fear in the face of the new technology . Some people protest against genetic engineering fearing it will be used in all sorts of disturbing ways, and likewise, other people have been worried about possible use, or abuse, of the cloning technology. But we live in a technology age and knee-jerk negative reactions are not necessarily productive in the long run. "A much better approach " says the Rustum Roy (a leading material scientist)" is for these people become educated about the science and technology so that they can get involved in the discussion about how to use them." As the Roy explains "the community live in the real world in which technology is ever present, ever expanding, and if they do not understand how it functions they will never be able to interface with it." Rather than feeling frightened and im...