By Geneva College Staff
Knowledge is power. And, although education is not the only means to attaining knowledge, it is a formidable tool that can be used in the gathering of knowledge.
Education cultivates and informs your perspectives on many issues, helping you to interpret the world around you, build opinions and enable the formation of your particular viewpoints. Education is an impressive tool that can be used to initiate social change, promote economic development and increase prosperity.
“Education is a powerful weapon that you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela
Education is more than going to your classes and doing the work necessary to get a passing grade—it’s about preparing for life! So, use this time wisely and work hard to take advantage of all the benefits a good education has to offer.
Top Advantages of Pursuing an Education
Many advantages go hand in hand with the pursuit of an education, but it’s up to you to use the educational opportunities you choose to pursue in order to best see its benefits. Let’s look at these advantages now.
Education Provides Better Employment Opportunities
Having greater employment options is one of the biggest reasons many people choose to pursue an education. In fact, an education, both college and in trade, provides numerous employment options to those who pursue it. Individuals who study, learn professional skills and dedicate themselves to becoming an expert are typically rewarded with increased salaries, making them more economically secure than those who remain uneducated.
Education is Empowering
One of the benefits of getting an education is having instructors. Why? Because someone else is involved. Instructors help you to develop your abilities and, thereby, reach your potential. They push, motivate, encourage and challenge you to do more, helping you to reach higher and achieve more than you may have otherwise been able to accomplish on your own. That’s empowering. You’re better equipped to live independently, trusting your instincts and knowing you’ve developed the ability to make logical and reasonable decisions.
Education Teaches Responsibility
As you pursue your education, there are times when you must decide that it’s more important to study and work on your coursework and class projects instead of doing other things that are a whole lot more fun. You learn to make sacrifices in the now for the gains you’ll experience in the future. You learn to take responsibility for your actions and to do the necessary work required to pass your classes. The responsibility developed while pursuing an education is an asset that will serve you well in many different capacities in the future.
Education Teaches Discipline
Just as education teaches responsibility, it also builds discipline. After all, if you don’t take the required actions necessary to pass a class, you’ll suffer the consequences. Situations such as this prepare you for a world where missing deadlines has real consequences and costs. The supportive environment of an educational institution is the perfect place to learn how to be a disciplined individual. Discipline is a valuable and highly prized skill that will serve you well throughout your life.
Education Provides Experience
As is the case for many young people, going to college may be the first time you’ve lived independently, separate from your parents. It may be the first time you are exposed to a more widely diverse group of peers. With these new experiences, you may become aware of totally new points of view and learn to appreciate the benefits of diversity in others. Your encounters with new groups of people and the situations you experience along the way provide a more developed understanding of the world around you and the events that are taking place in it. The situations and people you meet enable you to build and reinforce your reputation and social image.
Education Develops Social Skills
While attending college, you’re exposed to a much more diverse group of people and their cultures than if you had remained in the comfort of your home (or your hometown) where you were always surrounded by the same group of family and friends. As you go to class, attend meetings and enjoy social gatherings, you’ll have the opportunity to interact with people who are different than your normal circle of friends, which will help you develop social skills. These ‘soft” people skills will assist you throughout your life and career. Embrace this opportunity and develop the skills you can use to interact with people from all walks of life.
Opportunities to Develop Friendships
As you pursue your education, you’ll discover lots of new and exciting people along the way. You’ll encounter new potential “friends” in your lectures and classes, sometimes working in pairs and within groups to complete assignments and accomplish tasks, both in and out of the classroom. You share a common interest with them (your course of study) and you’ll be sharing large amounts of time with them in and out of the classroom. Why not take the time to get to know them better? You just might develop friendships that will last a lifetime.
Embrace These Benefits
As you can see, there are many benefits to having an education, and there’s no better time to embrace these benefits than when you’re young and aren’t yet weighed down with other responsibilities that make it harder to get an education, like working a fulltime job or starting a family. That being said, there’s no better time than now, no matter what your age, to acquire an education. In fact, becoming a lifelong learner—giving your brain a regular workout—provides some amazing benefits, including improved mental health, greater memory function, lowered stress levels, more happiness and increased earning potential.
If you’d like to take advantage of all these amazing benefits and you’d like to learn more about professions that enable you to serve wholeheartedly and faithfully in your life’s work or want to learn more about a biblically-based, Christ-centered education at Geneva, we’d love to chat with you. For more information on how Geneva College can help you pursue your education goals, please phone us at 855-979-5563 or email admissions@geneva.edu.Opinions expressed in the Geneva Blog are those of its contributors and do not necessarily represent the opinions or official position of the College. The Geneva Blog is a place for faculty and contributing writers to express points of view, academic insights, and contribute to national conversations to spark thought, conversation, and the pursuit of truth, in line with our philosophy as a Christian, liberal arts institution.
Sep 18, 2020
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