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The document provides directions for activities analyzing two essays about the importance of education. For the first essay, students are asked to complete a graphic organizer summarizing each paragraph. The second essay argues that education is important for teaching people how to learn and reason. It makes three persuasive points: education teaches how to learn independently; it teaches how to distinguish fact from unsupported claims; and it allows people to recognize links between actions and their consequences through reasoned analysis. Students are then asked to identify the persuasive points for each paragraph in the second essay in another graphic organizer.

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Activity 1

The document provides directions for activities analyzing two essays about the importance of education. For the first essay, students are asked to complete a graphic organizer summarizing each paragraph. The second essay argues that education is important for teaching people how to learn and reason. It makes three persuasive points: education teaches how to learn independently; it teaches how to distinguish fact from unsupported claims; and it allows people to recognize links between actions and their consequences through reasoned analysis. Students are then asked to identify the persuasive points for each paragraph in the second essay in another graphic organizer.

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ACTIVITY 1

Directions: Following the techniques above, summarize the texts by completing


the sample graphic organizer below.

Essay 1: Importance of Education

Education is a process that involves the transfer of knowledge, habits and


skills from one generation to another through teaching, research and training. It can
be in a formal or informal setting. Formal education involves institutionalized
learning based on a curriculum. In today’s society, education and learning play an
indispensable role in shaping the lives of individuals and the society at large. The
most effective way of boosting economic growth, reducing poverty and improving
people’s health is by investing in education.

Human labor is essential for economic growth. A highly educated labor force
further stimulates economic growth. Additionally, a highly educated labor force can
easily adapt to new working environments and conditions. In view of that, it is
evident that education serves as the driving force for innovation of new products
and services. Educated workers exchange ideas in the work place and come up
with new ideas that help in the growth of the economy.

Education reduces poverty in a number of ways. One way is by creating


employment opportunities for educated people. Through employment, one is able
to afford a decent living. Education helps to increase economic security, create
income opportunities and improve livelihoods of the economically disadvantaged
by providing sustainable environmental management mechanisms. Education
further alleviates poverty through skills acquired in the learning process. Skills such
as carpentry, plumbing and masonry are relevant in non-formal economies. One
can acquire these skills through technical and vocational training.

Educated people are health conscious and live longer than their
counterparts because they engage in healthy habits such as eating a balanced
diet, exercising regularly and going for medical check-ups. By investing in
education, one will also be investing in their health. Education serves to create
room for technological advancements in the field of medicine and agriculture.
Advanced technology used for conducting surgery has replaced traditional
methods. This has seen an improvement in people’s general health and an
increased life expectancy. Most developing countries have a low life expectancy
compared to developed countries. This can be attributed to high illiteracy levels
present in developing countries. This translates to poor health and poor eating
habits.

In conclusion, education is the only means of alleviating poverty, improving


people’s health and increasing economic growth. Improving literacy levels in
marginalized societies will go a long way in improving human living standards.

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Essay 2: Why is Education Important in Our Society?


Introduction

Education is more than just learning from books, and it is a shame that a lot
of schools do not see that it is more than just a curriculum and school score. A
good education can teach a child how to learn so that the child may take up
independent learning as an adult. Education may also teach a child how to reason
so that a child does not grow up to be ignorant.

Persuasive point 1:

The biggest selling point for education in our society is the fact that it helps
people learn “how” to learn. It is not about the knowledge they accumulate, it is the
way a child is taught how to “learn” things. A child may come away from school not
knowing a lot of the course, but if that child has been taught how to learn, then that
child may become an adult that learns everything he or she needs in life.
Otherwise, that child may grow up to be a person that cannot see the obvious
because he or she cannot reason and consciously learn new things.

Persuasive point 2

Education teaches people how to reason, and if they are taught how to
reason well, then they help subdue their own thoughts of ignorance. For example,
there are lots of posts and websites on the Internet about childhood vaccinations
and how dangerous they are. Ignorant people than never learned how to reason
will look at them, believe them and support them. If a person is taught how to
reason then he or she will know how to recognize empirical evidence.

Persuasive point 3

That person would look at all the people in the US that have had childhood
injections (most of them) and then look at all the people with autism. They would
reason that if childhood vaccinations caused autism then most of the people in the
US would have autism. If a person is taught how to reason then that person may
see how people that smoke seem more likely to develop emphysema than people
that do not smoke. They would then reason there is a link between smoking and
emphysema. This sort of reasoning can be taught in schools, and if children are not
taught it then they walk around risking their children’s lives by not vaccinating
them, and walk around smoking because their daddy smoked for years and it never
hurt him.
Persuasive point

4 Conclusion

If education is not seen as important, then one day it will just be all about
school
scores and hitting the factors of a curriculum. There will be a day when children
start to hate learning because school put them off it for life (this already happens in
some cases). Plus, without education teaching people how to reason things out
and teaching them how to separate what is fact from what is faulty evidence, then
our society will become more and more ignorant until a smarter country simply
marches over and takes our country from under out ignorant noses.

ACTIVITY 2

Directions. From the essay #2, complete this organizer with persuasive points for
each of the paragraphs following the thesis statement below. Write your answer in
your notebook following the format below.
Thesis statement: I will show you the two best reasons why education is important
in our society.
ACTIVITY 3

Directions: After identifying the persuasive points, write a summary of the text.

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