Different people have different opinions about the real role education plays in one's life. Some regard it as the access to schools or colleges and some take it as a tool to get good jobs. However, these are only two functions of education produced in our life. Instead of being intentative, education is of a lifelong process.
Briefly, education can be divided into three major processes in one's life. In the primary process, especially in one's studying period, a person must study from the basic and simple home education to the systematical school and college studies. In this process, education helps people advance from the illiterary state. Now, it is very important for it can affect people's future development.
The second process for people is to establish career, which is the turning point in one's life. In today's society, the great competition calls for well educated people to survive. At the same time, the number of students having bachelor's degree becomes larger and larger, which is followed by the higher requirements of job market. Therefore more and more people pursue higher degree in order to be adopted to the social needs. At this time, education means the way to get good jobs. Many people think that education has finished its function now. Of course, it is wrong. Education should continue to serve for people.
Since it is a society with violent competitions, people can't stop learning, which is easy to be eliminated by the society. In this condition, many people have the stronger sense of competition. Consequently, more and more people spend quiet a lot of spare time in further education to cultivate themselves. Meanwhile, study is a good way to enrich people's life, which can make one feel happy and hopeful.
Education is a continuous process in one's whole life. We shouldn't neglect every role of education playing at every stage of our life. Continuing the education, we can make our future more brilliant.
