“Equality and Education”

What comes into our minds when we say the word equality?
Maybe some of us would perceive equality as a manifestation of proper
conceptions to other races. The concept of equality could only be achieved
through one process, and that is education. Education molds us human beings
to nurture our knowledge to the extent of us learning the values of life that
God has bestowed in us. But, unfortunately nowadays people have the
tendency to look at education as a problem in a teenager’s normal life, not as
being a stepping stone for us to grab our opportunities. This usually comes to
students that are being pressured and stressed out by being a typical teenager,
and for some facing the conflicts of financial or family problems. Like others, I
myself have become a victim of these kinds of problems, I tried not to focus on
it but it kept dragging me down to the ground, but in God’s saving grace I’ve
found a way to crawl back onto my feet. Education no matter how we perceive
it helps us to become knowledgeable people in our own ways. It helps us
understand the true meaning of equality; it guides us for us to become
educated Christian leaders. It cradles us to tolerate the true meaning of
human dignity. Education helps us to further understand the true meaning
and value of life; it explains to us why life itself isn’t so simple and why life
has a ton load of complications and various meanings. Education motivates
us to inflict and relieve the essence of equality by being humble in our actions
and to treat others equally to ourselves and to pass it through people whom
have less knowledge and understanding about it.

-Justin Oliver V. Lai