Education is a topic that has been implemented on our generation more than ever before. However, it is not for the grades, degree or the income that should be important to us. It is for the sake of learning and developing our character in which education should be valued. When people go to school, they receive education therefore becoming educated, however, these people must keep in mind that a major portion of the world receives no form of formal education. Due to their good fortune, the educated people have responsibilities to the world. Educated persons have the responsibility to educate the uneducated.

The second responsibility of an educated person is to aim to advance to a better future. It is through evolution that we have become more intellectual and learned. For this process to be beneficial and continuous, we must use it and upgrade it through our use.

My own responsibility as an educated person, should be to better the future and make the right choices that would better the futures of my children and the people around me.

I think what is meant by the paradox of education is simply that the more you know, the more you are apt to conceive of how limited knowledge is, and how much you don’t know. But similarly, it may be that education is what allows you to realize your own self-imposed ignorance. According to James Baldwin, “The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”