"Education empowers a person".Elaborate this statement giving examples of personal experience.

Education empowers people with the knowledge, skills and values they need to build a better world. ... The belief that quality education can help reduce poverty and inequality comes from a recognition that education is a basic human right—similar to food and shelter—and that it is vital to protecting human dignity.

Explanation: According to international rankings, the U.S. educational system is depressingly mediocre. The United States spends more per student than most nations but produces dismal results in student achievement, especially in math and science. What’s more, students’ socioeconomic status plays a larger role in their educational achievements in the United States than in other countries. Consequently, it is no surprise that educational issues such as the Common Core State Standards, teacher pay, teachers unions, and district budgets cuts are in the news. As policymakers, administrators, teachers, and parents work to decrease gaps in student performance and increase student achievement levels, political and policy differences have led to contentious battles at the local, state, and national levels.

Education, it is used to indeed empower the minds of those who seek it. An education is a gate way to knowledge, those who find this can see just how education can be beneficial for themselves, other individuals and the world. I remember times that i could thank knowing how to solve problems and puzzles simply due to education. It is needed in this life, used every second of the day, even without us knowing it. Me typing this very second is due to my education, someone taught to me use this keyboard. Speaking, is also due to education, you learn words and phrases simply by being taught. Believe it or not, simple observation  is education, it's self-education.  Thanks to education the world has been advanced many times over, we have grown as a race because of it, it is natural for the human being to be curious, so as a effect to such a cause, we learn.

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