'Old World was polluted and crowded and
dying from its own poisons. That's why we
left, to find a better place, one we could do
our very best not to wreck like we had Old World'
'I've got lots of hope'
-The New World by Patrick Ness
If there is a chance for creating another world, a new world where everything is perfect, one of the characteristic that I would change is to have outstanding education for everyone. "Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself" (-John Dewey). Education is the process of receiving or giving the knowledge to discovery and to life. Without education, we would be narrow-minded and dispassionate for the society that we want.
Education is important because with them, the passion for us to be an educated upstander or leader is better than the uneducated one because I will have the urge and the idea from what I have been educated to reach the goal the society and the goal that I desire. Being an upstander is to convince people to do the right things and stand up against the wrongs. Little of the possibility that the uneducated one would take the chance to stand up because they don't have enough knowledge or courage to stand up against what isn't right. Without upstanders, our society would not reach the new discovery and life we've never been to.
Furthermore, the action of discovering the life and new technology from education would make the society brighter and more convenience. Convenience life might turn the our new little utopia with proper education into a dystopia. However, with educational technology and actions, everyone in the society can help each other to protect our world from becoming another dystopia.
Education is the heart of the New World, with it, people would know the proper things to do whenever it turns into a dystopia. We would know how to solve it. As John Dewey say, 'Education is life itself', he claimed that education is not only what we need to have in life, but with education we can turns our lives into a better one.
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