Whether education is a lifelong process has become an interesting question that people often argue. Some of them think education ends up at school while others tend to study until they die. Actually education accompanies people throughout their lives.
No one can learn all the knowledge he/she needs because the changing situations often raise new questions to them and new knowledge emerges as the society develops. A new job, a new position, a new technique may ask people to learn and broaden their ranges of knowledge otherwise they may follow behind others. Many great men, furthermore, continue their studies in their lives. Marx learned Russian in his fifties because he felt it necessary to study Russian revolution and he wanted to read the materials written in Russian. On Chairman Mao's bed, books of all sorts occupied half of the bed, and Chairman Mao usually read them before he went to sleep, Chairman Mao's wide range of knowledge that people admire comes from the accumulation of daily and lifelong self-education. What is more, lifelong education may help people discover their own potential. Touching more fields of knowledge than before, people may find out what they show interest to and where their abilities can bring full play. One of my friends participated many training classes as she was still at the university. She found that she might do well in human resources as she knew more than what she had learned at the university. Hence, she took a job in the human resources office of a department store and now she is the head of the office. She often thanks for the trainings she has taken.
Lifelong education often produces more job opportunities, more chances to succeed than you just take education at school.
