Education is the key to social progress.

Education is the key to social progress. Education starts in the family as a school of love and values. The parents are the children's first educators. Family education prepares children for the bigger school education together with children in the community at large.

Teachers as second parents bring the education of children to a higher level to prepare them for social involvement, social progress, nation building and towards building a global community.

Without education from the individual level to the family, social, national and global level, co-prosperity, mutual development and happiness would be hard to achieve. Especially now, in this hi-tech society, we need to teach children from a very young age how to use and value things for the common good and benefit. When they get older, we need to teach them about important values that bring their knowledge and skills to actualize or materialize hopes and dreams.

Personally, I am where I am now because of education. Even though, we were so poor, my parents along with the help of our friends and relatives managed to send us to school. I and all my siblings studied hard at school in order to help our parents, to finally free them from the burden of doing so much work for little money so they could feed us, clothe us and send us to school. From too much poverty, we were able to move to where we are now because of our educational achievement.

Education gives us a vicarious experience of the world's countries, cultures, languages, sciences, phenomena and economic or material achievements. Education allows us to look into ourselves deeper and how we should relate to individuals above us, beside us, and under us. We learn to respect fellow citizens, uplift the moral of the discouraged, cheer up the sad and hopeless people and above all allow us to interact with each other meaningfully and purposively.

Without education. we won't have people in-charge of social growth and infrastructures; nobody to manage the airport or the ports; nobody to fly the planes, drive the vehicles, find the cure of diseases or even find living beings in the l¥solar system for the sake of humankind's future. There are more to be said here about education being a key to the human, social, economic, political, environmental and technological advancement.