Эссе: Education polishes good natures and corrects bad ones

The importance of education cannot be exaggerated: it helps make a good career, enables to gain success easily. However, does the education make us responsible and determined? Can it help get rid of bad habits and gain new ones?

As for me, education greatly develops character qualities such as decisiveness, persistence and determination. To begin with, education frequently takes place under the guidance of a teacher, so students have to get used to discipline and attentiveness to achieve good results in studying subjects. Furthermore, there is always a competition between youngsters over getting assignments done faster or winning different kinds of sport championships, which immediately makes adjust students to rivalry and competition. Finally, education teaches us how to be tolerant, patient and hard working.

On the other hand, some people claim that education does not make us responsible or determined. Firstly, becoming successful and persistent totally depends on a person, so education has nothing to do with developing one’s character. Secondly, students can be influenced by some teenagers and thus gain bad habits such as drinking alcohol, smoking or using foul language.

I cannot agree with these people. Even though a lot of things depend on a person only, there is something education can greatly help with: it teaches how to cope with different problems, helps realize what a person is interested in and thus enables one to find out what he or she is good at.

To sum up, I would say that getting education is a very important part of our life. Not only does it easily help make a good career, but it is also a great way to improve character and find out one’s talents and interests.