Education: The Importance Of Education In The United States

The reason that many people go and acquire an education is to make something of themselves, to get into a promising career, which may come through obtaining a college/university degree. Do with this many immigrants are flooding in the countries with high importance of education, such as the United States of America, and Canada. Where immigrants are coming to obtain a better education than they would have received in their home country. This paper will demonstrate how education shapes individuals, so that they have the knowledge to go out and obtain the job that so desire; as well as how immigrants are affected by education, and the hardships their families face to get them there. Education starts to be taught to the public from a very young …show more content…
Many people choose to go out and live a life of crime, prostitution, and even doing low end jobs. Many who end up choosing this path end up contracting diseases such as HIV and AIDS. Many black women become in contact with such diseases from a very young age do the fact that they were unable to achieve an education; the reason that they were usable to achieve an education may be due to the “educational achievement gap for African Americans… [the] school drop out rates doubled at 4.8% in comparison to white rates at 2.4%” (Monica L., 219). The percentage of black students compared to white students, as more black students are seeing a life of being in a gang more fascinating then gaining an education; many black students stop their education without gaining a high school diploma. In the contrary many white students tend to go out and get their high school diploma so that they are able to pursue their education further such as going to a university/college; from which them are able to obtain a diploma or even obtain their masters, which would help to shape their life and obtain a promising career in which they choose to