19. Should school attendance be mandatory? In your answer, be sure to explore what the function of education is, and what our nation would look like if the masses were less educated.

     

     I firmly believe that school attendance should be mandatory. Education is easily one of the most important aspects in anyone's life. Without education, the world would be completely different from what it was today. A comparison between a man with no education and a man with a great education is unbelievable. The educated man will typically be well-dressed, successful, almost intimidating with his serious manner and bussiness-like appearance; whereas the uneducated man will be unclean, homeless, poor, and desperate. This is a very sad truth. I do believe there are much more important things to learn in life than just academics, but unfortunately, they play a huge part in society. It would rely greatly on imagination and stereotypes to determine how our nation would appear today without education. It would probably be much like centuries ago, without electricity and cars and planes and giant skyscrapers. There would be much more chaos, people not having the ability to communicate with each other as well, and would lead to much confusion and disaster. While I do believe that technology plays a bit too much into our current society, it is difficult to imagine a world without it.