Education not only gives a person useful knowledge and skills, it also decisively influences one's personal character, spirit and way of living. Education should be regarded as a lifelong project because of its effect of all aspects. 
Education usually starts in families when the children are at very young ages. They are so vulnerable that the parents words and deeds will directly determine the children's through imitation. These influences, according to the sociologists, play rolls continuously through a person's whole life.
Education in schools is the preparation for one's entire future. School educations plays crucially important parts in the whole process of education, but it doesn't mean it is the only part and to secure good jobs is its only purpose. Becides the concrete knowledge and skills, school education also provides for the students some view of the world and a certain way of thinking, which will be melted into the students thoughts and behaviors. Therefore, graducation means a new starting point for a person to choose and pursue one's future life with what he has got in school and to get prepared to receive all kinds of education from the society.
A person needs to study all through his life if he wants to make progress. Society gives him the largest part of education in his life. Having left the school, the changeable situation forces him to choose his own way with what he has known about and to accept a lot new. Education never stops training the person.
Education is a lifelong process because each person not only receives it all the time but also is guided by it always.
