Two sides to the Story

Education, in my opinion is always going to follow with risk. There are so many aspects involve in an academic environment especially schools, that one can never tell what exactly children are going to pick up. I think educations is beautiful because it opens the mind to information in the world that one might not necessarily have learned or thought to learn otherwise. Education can help a person, in a way, escape the world they live in and see beyond what is in front of their eyes. Education done right will teach students how to think for themselves and discover the world around them. The risk comes in with the ‘education done right’ part. How does one tell is education was done right? What is right? What will children pick up outside of what teachers are trying to get across? If we teach them to think, find information and argue, what will they use those skills for? There are good people and people who aren’t so good in this world and part of the risk with education, is educating someone who will use that knowledge they have learned for ‘bad’ reasons, for lack of a better word. There are two sides to every story, don’t judge a book by its’ cover, you can read many things between the lines, are all sayings that show how controversial any given being or object can be. Why then should education be any different. It is a beautiful thing to receive an education but some of the outcomes of education are risky.