education..

The world will always need people to scrub toilets, dig ditches, and haul off the trash. Of course, if you'd like to do something more interesting, you will need an education.

Anonymouswhy education is so important???

Why is education so important?

Blue JayThe world will always need people to scrub toilets, dig ditches, and haul off the trash.

Many people do not consider education important.
Some people consider the professions that Blue Jay mentions as honorable.
Other people think that their girl children must get married as soon as they reach maturity. In their opinion, girls do not need an e

All the professions mentioned are honorable, I think the point is simply that if one wishes to work in areas other than manual labour , one needs an education.

Blue JayThe world will always need people to scrub toilets, dig ditches, and haul off the trash.

But only until the robots are invented that can do those things, and we're well on the way to that brave new world. Then we'll have 95% unemployment and the living will envy the dead.

CalifJimBut only until the robots are invented that can do those things, and we're well on the way to that brave new world. Then we'll have 95% unemployment and the living will envy the dead.

I hadn't thought of that. That's frightening. Those are three of my marketable job skills (although toilet scrubbing was never more than a small part of my job descriptio

Blue JayI always figured that if the worst came to the worst I could fall back on them.

Oops! I hope you've got a Plan B.

CalifJimI try to look on the bright side. The Asteroid

I sometimes look on the very bright side - a supernova, and sometimes on the very dark side - a black hole.