Laments Necessity of Education

To The Editor:
Youth is warned with justified regularity of the disadvantages life holds for those who terminate their education before completing high school. Among the many of these, the following cold facts are most frequently mentioned: Dropouts, when compared to those who achieve a diploma, face a narrower field of employment opportunities, experience greater job dissatisfaction, earn less money yearly and suffer more unemployment.
When a comparison of these groups is conducted in other spheres of life, the negative consequences of insufficient education are no less disturbing. In what broadly may be termed the social realm, persons of lesser education are likelier to regard unfamiliar peoples and cultures with fear and suspicion, feel more intimidation and inferiority when among speakers possessing broader vocabularies than they, exhibit significantly more anxiety when reflecting upon the world’s affairs, and display more difficulty in reasoning away the sway and swindle arguments of others, all too often put before us. If these reve1ations have not succeeded in putting the importance of education in perspective, then perhaps this truism, taken from the society of the gray haired will.
In conversation, long or short, with many or few, no sound-minded senior citizen is ever heard uttering the words, “I have had too much education.” Many of them, will readily confess to a lifetime regretting the having of too little.
RAY LEWIS
Corbin City