The question we all asked in school, or at least wanted to, was, "who came up with the idea of an education?" Admit it. There was probably a point in every class where you wondered who had the idea of making us wake up early, go to class and suffer through some lecture just so you could go home and spend a lot of time doing research on some topic. Unfortunately, many people fail to …showed first 75 words of 1565 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1565 total…prepare them for the future. A quality education teaches a person to succeed as well as being prepared for failure. If a school system is able to get across these ideas then they have successfully educated a student. "We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education" (Pratte 97).