The Third Industrial Revolution has been promoting our society greatly. Anyone who wants to keep in time with the development of the changing society, should continuously fullfil himself with vast knowledge.
One way to obtain knowledge is to be educated. However, the education in school is rather limited even backward. After graduation from school, you will still be faced a lot of problems, which cannot be solved only be your school knowledge. The things from the books are really very theoretic, in contrast to the practical problems after school.
A lot of odd things emerge in our life, if you know nothing about them, you'll feel very outdated. Take computer for example. Not until 1990s, it has become so popular, and before this 1990s, computer is just something in imagination to most of Chinese people. Some people just had heared of it without knowing what it exactly was. Then if you place a computer in front of him, he still cannot use it. For him, the computer is just some decoration. If he wants to operate that decoration, he must learn either by himself or going to the training center, to enlarge his knowledge in this area.
We always say that education is the fundamental of the development of a nation. So for the government of a nation, I think it should also popularize the lifelong education, while emphasizing the school education. And this lifelong education contains too periods: pre-school education and post-school education.
As individuals, why do you study? You study in order to get a good job, and thus to lead a good life. Then we can know that receiving education is one way to own a good job. Then if you receive more education, you can be outstanding while others cannot, thus you can also lead a better life than others.
