essay - GMAT: Issue 13

"Education has become the main provider of individual opportunity in our society. Just as property and money once were the keys to success, education has now become the element that most ensures success in life."

In your opinion, how accurate is the view expressed above? Explain, using reasons and examples based on your own experience, observations, or reading.

Answer:
I agree with the statement saying that education has become the main provider of individual opportunity in our society. Education is apparently the most important factor in being successful in the society. This belief is based on a wide variety of examples and personal experiences.

We are created equal. This means that everybody has a chance to ensure success through his own efforts. When people are born, they are all equal. If people make efforts to be successful, pursue happiness, and make the lives rich, the efforts must be rewarded. In this sense, education should be only a major factor of success, and we should make it so. Education is gained by his own will, not property he inherited from his parents, not money he just has at any given time. Education makes him to enroll a better school, to get a better job, and to achieve better success. We are created equal in terms of this. To prove this, we can cite many examples. One of them is Barack Obama, who is a candidate for the next American president. He didn't have property when he was born. He didn't have much money when he was a child. He just got good education. And he finally became the first black candidate for the president from major parties in the American history. Such kind of people like him should be rewarded, and be worth success.

I can cite my own experience. My parents didn't have much money, but they gave me education, which made me enroll good schools and join a good company. I didn't have much money, but now I'm getting reasonable money through my education. If I didn't have the education, even though I had a lot of money, I would be loosing the money and would not be able to get success.

In terms of the points I mentioned above, we must assure that education is given to everybody who wants it. Opportunities to get education should be equal. Therefore, especially the government should enact laws in order to make this happen, like setting up funds that support young people to enroll universities.

To sum up, education is a major factor in our society to get success. And at the same time, we must make it so in order to realize our ideal society; all men are created equal.