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As growing children we were made to understand that education is key to everything. Our little minds were structured in a way that those who don't go to school are of less importance and cannot make something meaningful out of their lives. We were made to believe that those who didn't go to school are the poor and struggling to survive people in the society. Most often our parents will use men and women of high status to use as examples for us so that we can be like them when we grow up. And then as children we also chant it that ""I want to be a lawyer, a doctor "' etc.
As adults we have seen the reality of life that all of those stories we were made to believe most time don't actually turn out the way we pictured them in our heads. Life always has a different play out for people.

I feel children should be given the free will of deciding whether or not they want to have a formal education. They should decide weather or not they want to do something else with their lives outside school professions. The present day economy is mostly taken over by skilled men who earn way better than those in professions that graduates or the educated ones do. I'm not saying education is not important though. Education is very important at least for the basics to be optained by all to know how to read and write . After which I feel individuals should decide whether to further their education or to learn a trade.
If a child learns a trade from childhood I'm very sure he will do excellently well and even be financially independent very early. This will be of advantage to both his parents and the society at large. I also feel if this becomes a culture there will be less cases of social vices in the society because children growing up will learn to be more responsible when they are doing what they have passion for in life. Because most times children are often forced to go to school and out of less passion they learn and join negative groups that affects their lives negatively on the long run.


What are your opinions on giving every child formal education?
Should education be mandatory for allll?
Should children be made to learn a trade of their choice from childhood?

It shouldn't even be up for debate, this education is mandatory for every child Because it's the bedrock of everything. Imagine a child having basic education what do you think is going to happen to that child when he or she grows up. Even if the child decides to learn a trade or skill how would success be achieved in that aspect. Everything we do requires reference to basic education and the most important of them all is interaction, without knowing how to do this it would become a problem for the individual to do anything, formal education is very important.

At least to secondary level, going to school to get quality secondary school education is important for healthy society. After which, it should be a thing of personal decision (not by force) for the teenager/child to decide whether to further to higher institution or not,. But then, this decision also needs parental guidance with good assessment of the child..
Parents should be free enough to allow the found academic potential of their child. So that if the child is not to further, they move on with what is at hand and that ends it.

 Maybe this proper guidance and free mindedness by parents will likewise benefit higher institutions of learning.

Like I sated in the context, that education is important at least for every child to get the basic knowledge of reading and writing after which should be given a chance to choose weather to continue or not. It's not like children should not be given that chance at all. What I'm asking is after the basic stage of education should children be forced against their will to still choose to obtain higher level of education? Because most time some don't have the interest of furthering their education. They other things they have as hoboes that can be learnt as a trade that will make life meaningful and comfortable for them

So, a 4 years old child should be given a choice whenever they want to enter primary school or not? ???

Formal education is a must, parents must able to provide their child for formal education at least bachelor degrees because it's to saves the child if they not successful with their own choice. Formal education doesn't take 24/7 in 16 years, they only school like for 8 hours, if they want to achieve their dream with their own ways, do that after you school schedule ends.

Well, typically you have to go through the so called formal schools and complete them to thrive in the formal world. That is the standard many societies set for themselves. They tend to priorize on "comrades" that have been molded into the desired standard.
But it's not necessary or mandatory to go through the formal schools "to make something meaningful out of life". It's however necessary to educate a child properly, whether through formal school or other means. You need to set a basic(less detailed) and solid knowledge foundation at the little age. This is a period when cramming and repetition should be used more often to help children know the names, meaning etc, of diverse kind of things, especially those they are familiar with in their environments. Once the foundation is set, you go alittle bit into teaching the detail of the basic knowledge acquired by the children. This is where they may begin to discover what they are passionate about (basically their talents, gifts or their natural roles in life). You expand into more details, and at this level, the children begin to choose or list the knowledge they are passionate about and hope to focus on.


Ofcourse, you could set your own knowledge standard if it's more advanced than what people go to formal schools for. This is what will help the kids make something meaningful out of life and be better than others. Otherwise inadequate or bad knowledge could make them be at lower level of society.

Concerning learning trade or business, this is actually within the range of letting children choose what they are passionate about. Which is probably beyond the secondary education level. Once their talents are discovered, they could go and learn from people who have mastered their own talents to learn to properly do their own chosen businesses.

This could all be accomplished in informal sector of a system parallel to the formal sector.

The point is not for a 4 years old child to attain education. It was clearly stated in the context after the basic stage required for every child which is both primary and secondary school, which is the basic for everyone. Should a child not be allowed to do what he has passion for?
Most cases children are forced to further education against their wish making it seem like other spheres of life are not important .

i am sorry i am sure you mean well but this is just a stupid take

all kids would proceed to not study then if they were given a choice we would all just have played and done other things formal education is not just mandatory but is a right because a kid has to go to school to actually learn basic life skills before they grow into adults with the right knowledge and be able to decide for themselves

you see how college is not always mandatory after high school they can do whatever they want because by then they are adults who can think for themselves

a kid will not be able to know what he would want to do right away hell even some highschoolers do not figure out what they want to do until later on in life some find their passion during college but i am against this suggestion of yours

Formal education is necessary and for any civilized individual they will know that it is also mandatory to give our children formal education, because things are fast moving on a high lace and we can't afford to do without engaging the use of formal education for our wards, but some will think of this same thing s not being necessary because they don't know what to gain from it nor what they are going to missed out if not soughted for, if your child turns a great person today, there is no way it will not positively affect you as a parent, it's worth going for.

Let me ask you @Youngrebel if your 8 years old child told you that he or she doesn't want to go school will you agree to what they want or you will persuade them to go school?, is the sole duty of parents to give their child education regardless of whether they will use it to get a job because that's mostly the first foundation, let me tell you based on your words if trading is what you want for your child education doesn't prevent it, actually for me education is the first thing I will give my children because I have seen the educational impact to the world. So actually education should be mandatory if the resources of funding is there, so don't judge education from your perspective do it from the content it provides.

Okay okay, so we're talking about 18 years old child right?

I still stand with my previous opinion, if I were the parents, I will force them to enter university and I will allow them to pick any major they want to learn. They still have time to upgrade their skill or doing their hobby after their school schedule ends.

If someday their hobby/skill already earn money and they want to quit from school, I will make an agreement with my child. I allow them to quit, but if they fail in their hobby/skill, they must enter University and get a degree.

If that's our child, we want the best for them and even if they don't want to get formal education. As parents, it is our duty to give them a good life and provide them formal education. That's what we call, being responsible.

Yes. Although there are a lot of children that are unfortunate and can't even go to school. If you have the privilege and means of doing it, why not do and give that?

They'll know what they like when they are on the right age. Whether they're still considered kid or teen or young adult.

Childhood keh? What age range?
I try to get your point, and indeed I've encountered adults who regret attending university. They feel they wasted their years, and if they had known better, they would have started learning programming skills after secondary school. That's understandable, but the fact remains that everyone's path is different. Some people can't figure out their interests in secondary school, a lot of self discoveries are made in university.

 Let them reach an adult age when they're physically, mentally, and emotionally sound to make life decisions. Education up to university shouldn't be debated. Children can equally attend university and learn skills like if they want to. I wouldn't deny a child education because they're good at hairdressing at a young age .

There's nothing wrong with attending university for four years and not using your degree afterward. Those years definitely thought you other things you'll need in life as you progress. I think getting first degree should be standard.

Very important. We have seen the rate of adult education. If formal education was not important then there wouldn't have been need for adult education abinitio. It is the demand for it that made the establishment come up and that means those adults who have made money and become super rich have a need for it. They feel something missing in them and so they want to be complete. It is not about carrying the certificate about but maybe they don't have that basic, reading and writing so you can at least know when you are signing off your dead warrant and avoid it  ;D


The basic should be mandatory because that is where you learn how to read and write which is important in communication.


I think what was missing is just facing one aspect of learning which is formal education but they can be combined at some point when the child is on vacation, they can also learn some trade or skill from time to time until they know where they best fit in, whether education or trade/skill.

 It is very necessary that every child must undergo elementary (beginner education) so they could be civilly enlightened about the world, economy and some knowledge about the society.
This will help the child to be able to develop productive skills or stick on professional courses.
Whether having a skill (handwork) or obtaining professional degrees are of same goals which is being financial independent and being that helpful existence in the society are all them same .

let be honest..
a 5yr old doesnt know better, there are reasons parents take responsibility of their childs actions
giving the child a choice they will all say they want to be a fireman or a princess..

education is important and should be a right in which finance is not a barrier as it should be paid for via taxes

but here is the thing.. education should be better
primary/elementary school should be suitable to teach each child the basics of reading/writing, confidence and social interactions
by this i mean not overcrowd a classroom where some kids dont get change to ask for help, and then miss out, dont learn, dont get noticed that they are slipping behind

secondary/highschool should teach more indepth stuff, stuff that matter to real life. stuff that are building blocks to real careers
allow the first few years have experiences in different types, whether its manual or mental.. material work or math/science work
then give options more career related to gain more direction towards what they might want to do later and gain a leg up for college admittance or trainee-apprenticeship applications

Yes I am on the opinion that all children should be given formal education because even the trade you will teach the child, he or she will need good education for excel. Education for good communication and education for calculating so education is much more important in every aspect of human life.

That's true you need to also have some level of education to learn faster in the skill job. I think both education and skill should be learnt like I earlier said. It is not good to leave out one for the other. In fact, every person is suppose to have a skill apart from their education and that will make you balance because you can also find yourself in a situation where your education is failing you to get office job, then you can switch to skill job.

Formal education is very important for every child even if they don’t wish to have a career through the education they’ve learnt from school. What you have learnt from school, the basic education that every child should have will directly or indirectly going to affect the child and can make the child make decisive choices as he’s growing up in this modern society.

If formal education is not important, there is no way that even governments will want to make it mandatory and free for every child in their vicinity. When a child learns about formal education in their young age, it helps to propagate their life’s better even when they find themselves in an environment where the government does not help in pursuance for a greener future through education they’ve citizens have acquired over the years in their course of studies in the institutions.

Simply imagine that you are a parent and if it's okay with you that your children won't be sent to school to learn formal education.

I don't think that a parent ever dreamt of their kids into that kind of situation. Even the lesser fortunate people that have no capacity to send their kids to school.

All they want for them is to make their kids have this kind of formal education because it'll surely give their kids a better future. And it's a treasure for them that they will bring until they die.

Basic education should be mandatory but also free.

Imagine a situation where you have uneducated morons walking around. People who can't read, write and count. How would they obey laws if they can't read them? How would they be able to function in a society where you have to count money, pay bills? Without basic education you'd have more homeless people, more crime, idiots causing problems because they don't know that you don't mix certain chemicals together, or that you don't eat certain things. They would have to learn everything the hard way which means full hospitals, a lot of fires and other accidents.

That said, I don't think middle school should be mandatory. At that point it should be up to that young person or his parents. I often see people who are made to learn things they will never ever use in their lives, while they could be learning a trade. For instance, a good mechanic requires experience. He doesn't have to know geography or history. If that ever becomes his hobby he can always learn it on his own.

Secondary, tertiary and other forms of higher education shouldn't be a must, after children must have obtained basic education it should be Their choice to either pursue it or not. Education is very important but it isn't always the key to becoming successful. Most successful people in the world are dropouts, this tells you that it's not by having a degree. Some kids might have ideas of going for something different, like learning a trade or skill that can be very lucrative, they should be supported instead of being forced to pursue higher levels of education. They can be successful from following their ideas.

You have to know that what you learn the basic elementary level can't be used to comprehend the things in the society and it in the tertiary education Brain that is use to understand many things in the society and that is why university is a community on it own where brains are refined to be useful in the society and to help themselves. If not the World Bank new arrangement of employment in the African countries, things would have nice for everyone and going to school wouldn't be a problem but because of the jobless society, many people are against education.
Education is the bedrock in every society.

Even if a child needs to use their time for something else, chase a different part aside from schooling, they still need to go to college and at least learn how to read and write very well. In this present generation, knowing how to read and write will save you from unnecessary troubles and misunderstandings, and you need that too in order to chase whichever dream you want to pursue. A degree is not a must if my child doesn't want that, but I won't be in a house with someone who will call on others every time to come and help him or her read something because of their inability to pronounce.

Yes, education should be provided for every child at that preliminary stage of his/her life. It is the performance of the child at this stage that will determine if he needs to advance his formal education or engage in other forms of learning. The reason for giving every child the early opportunity to be educated is so that the ability of the child can be known. There are children who are good in reasoning, some good in crafts, and others in sports. When the talent of the child has been made manifest then instead of forcing those children good in sports to continue the formal education, they can be enrolled in a sports academy where their talent can be nurtured. For those children good in reasoning, they can advance in formal education since they have shown prospects for a higher learning.

Formal education is important and should be mandatory for every child because it affords them the opportunity to learn and acquire skills necessary for critical thinking and socialisation to fit into society properly.

Formal education might give the child confidence especially knowing that formal education is the thing in vogue. It polishes the child's intellect

We only just need to change our mindset about how things works in life. Education is very good and I think every one needs  going to school is not a guarantee to get a better job but the essence of having Education is to be enlighten and to get civilised.  Education proves people and plays good role in every profession people found doing in life. Having Education doesn't mean one has to get a bsc, PhD degree but if you choose to go for it there is nothing wrong with. Just imagine Joe life would be without any form of Education at all. Education add values to one life and also make one to be discipline.

Really I'm quite surprised the responses to your post are so lacking of the elephant in the room regarding education. While human history taught us that formal education is all but universally helpful, that really is NOT the case for children in today's world. Robots and AI will be collectively better at more than 95% at what an average college educated human can do by the time a baby born today becomes an adult. The need for formal education in the early computer age was of unprecedented importance because over half of manual labor has already been mechanized by farm equipment leaving more jobs that are focused on labor of the mind. The need for intelligence in the post-robotics age, coming after Optimus and competing robots are launched, quickly and dramatically reduces the need for human intelligence as those tasks are completed by robots and AI.

Therefore, it will be important for future children to be quickly adaptable and intelligent in other ways that are informal, so an informal education will make much more sense. Everyone's job will be entrepreneur. An entrepreneur's job is to think independently to their specific situation, finding innovative ways to solve their specific needs and those in their specific circle of society, especially friends and neighbors who may be able to network with them.

Even if none of the robot age will happen by some miracle of chance, the AI systems today are better able to educate a child because they can give them fully individualized education needs. Those who learn by question and answer best are particularly well educated by abandoning their formal education and switching to an informal education that is AI-lead.

So yes, children can now drop formal education and be taught by informal methods. If someone has a baby born in the past few years, they have no need to formally educate their child. Even children to read and write isn't strictly a need, as they now have AI voice command systems that calculate anything that need calculation upon demand as a personal assistant. The only hitch is that they are relying on society continuing to have such options available in the future. But we are already at a point where if all machines suddenly stopped working such as by worldwide nuclear war most of us would likely be dead within a year.

A college degree earned today will have little value 20 years from now, in 2045. In fact, AI will be teaching most people most things in 2045, and we have to worry about people who think AI should be bossing us around and telling everyone on planet Earth what they do and don't have to do. That is the level of trust people will put, the dangers are unprecedented for that to happen.

If children learn a trade from an early age, they will be focused and responsible for that work. They will not engage in any bad deeds.  Any business can be easily understood and profitable if educated in formal education. A child becomes educated due to right decision of parents. An educated person can do good for a country. Formal education is important for every child. Every parent should give importance to their child's future and make them educated in higher education.

basic education is a necessity that every child should as a matter importance go through before eventually choosing whatever field he wish to specialize in. even if the child is so skilled at a craft that might not take him to the regular profession of either being a medical doctor, an engineer or an accountant, the place of basic education which is gotten from a formal educational setting cant be done away with regardless of how the society has grown with options of learning from home or using different learning aids that seems to yield similar result like what is obtainable from the formal educational setting.

nothing is wrong about learning a trade earlier in life but even at that, i would rather have my child go through the normal formal educational setting and then use his holidays and free time to learn a trade than let him neglect the formal educational system just because he can get skilled by learning a single trade. there is a lot that comes with getting formal education before getting other forms of education and most cases, it helps one socially and expose one to a robust knowledge which will eventually hep you when you decides to go into learning a given trade. formal education is still not outdated.

Education is the backbone of a nation. It is very important for the children of every country to be educated. Because education is the only tool to stand tall in the world.

If you look at the African continent. Their height and physical strength are more than any other country in the world. But they have not yet been able to reach the big stage of the world just because they do not have education.

Therefore, formal education should be made mandatory for every child

Children should get these courses:
Reading
Writing
Math
Money/Economy
How their government works

Anything else should be learned in the reading section.
The only other thing might be Phy. Ed.

About 3 hours a day, 5 days a week, 9 months a year... except that the phy. ed. might be in addition to the 3 hours.

The rest of the time should be focused on the child learning about the various kinds of occupations that are out there, so that they can figure out what they want to do with their lives.

Freedom for the child is very important.

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At least in my country and according to the constitution, formal education for children is supposed to be of quality, free and also mandatory, disregarding the social and economical estatus of the child who wants to study.
Though, in reality there is a high percentage of people who accord afford to send their children to public schools and sadly those children end up losing their path and becoming unproductive members of society, basically they lose the initial potential they had to become professionals, like engineers, doctors, lawyers...
So, in my country we live in contradiction, we have the biggest oil reserves on the planet and yet, we cannot comply with our own constitution when comes to free access to middle and highschool education for our youth.

Education is very important it makes us a valuable citizens of our country and its our way to make a living and establish our own household. it is the right of every child to have a formal education it was guaranteed by the United Nations.
The future of every country depends on how educated its citizens are, so it should be mandatory for every child; it's their right and the government's obligation.

The problem is that government doesn't educate. Rather, it tries to ingrain propaganda and political ideas of the party in power into the minds of the children.

Get Federal government out of doing any more than requiring that the parents train the kids. At least send it back to the States to each do their own method of training.

All that the Federal Department of Education should do is promote several ideas to the States so that they have some guidelines to follow. As I have said in an earlier post... Children should get these courses:
Reading
Writing
Math
Money/Economy
How their government works

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The advantages that comes with aquiring formal education by anyone being it a child or an adult cannot be overemphasized. The reason why I mentioned adult is because adults who were not oppotuned in their early life to go to school find it difficult to attend schools at later ages. Although when you talk children's education, you know it is something that's rampant now and the awareness have grown significantly across the world, particularly with the power of media.

We've seen different occasions where students from the interior part of most countries gain formal education either by the government or through the aide of foundations and NGO, but adult education for illiterates remain another area of concern and an area I believe deserves a more attention. Many of these adults feel bad and shameful to attend school with children and therefore would not want to enroll is such education, I think it will be a great idea if governments around the world create special attentions and classes for these adults in formal education.

That’s just the facts about the education there’s some people that their take education meaningless has they see there’s a lot of graduates for ground without jobs, and education is all about getting the only is entirely main for everything; that’s why people describe it as the for everything. Because even the business he/she want to start now and his lack of knowledge it will moving has well.

Because education is very important for everything, i won’t agree that those who don’t go to school are less important, is just that those that go to school are more civilized, because even their well of behavior will be far different from those that are not educated.

I think basic formal education should be the right of every child. Basic formal education helps the child fits into the society and its every parents duty to give this to their child. Its okay to have an informal education, but every child deserves the basic formal education to help them navigate in the society and also help them to communicate better amongst their peers. Formal education helps you in reasoning, how to behave and many more things, so denying a child this education is denying the child a lot of things that will really help the fit perfectly well in the society,  so I will always advocate for a basic formal education for every child.

I'm not giving my 2yrs old child the chance to decide on his educational journey, this shouldn't even be a debate because education is one of the things that shapes our lives and future so it is needed. I understand your thoughts about skills and you are correct but our children also need education to back up what ever skills they choose. A collaboration between education and skills is equal to success, and why not give your children the best of both worlds?, it isn't mandatory to reach the university level but at least they should get a proper understanding of being educated even if it's just up to the secondary level. To succeed in life I feel that knowing how to read and write isn't just enough to navigate life, you need the exposure and boldness to succeed and that is why education is important too because it gives you the exposure and prepares you to interact with your audience.

Basic of formal educations for children is very essential as it builds a stone throw to illuminate the child's vision and then identifies or desires a dream.
The environments do have it own essence of impacting a child, it could be of good or bad morals. So disengaging the child's from attaining basic or formal education will live them at their childishness unaware about making responsible decisions but ending up in the streets due to lack of educative formations that's to project their mindsets from craving and optimistic towards building a carrier, either professional or skills. But yes, this basic educations are key elements that brightens child's optimism to decide what they want to be.
Denying them this essence is like letting them to grow in the dark while they struggles all by themselves when it's time to take responsibility or taking self decision considering what's best them and it's benefits.
If you can't take them up to the higher educational level, atleast that elementary stage is very important which as well exposes them to be familiar in some basics of life therefore, optimizing them to have bright visions for their own future even without owning a degree.

Formal education is very paramount for our children, because it makes them more relevant outside the country we lived in, it also stand an opportunity for them to quickly grab on any attempt on career and profession qualifications and stand out among others, it increases our competence, insight and understanding because English is a universal language everyone must learn to speak and understand it well.

You have just spoken very well on the topic that, is former education mandatory for every child because i have persus on what you have said so far and all the points you make just draw my attention on how my parents do spreach to me that education is the key to every successful man, i have come to understand that it is not a bad idea either because that mindset makes me to work hard in school so that i can be like the successful man but the mistake several parents makes is that they force many child to read what they feel like is good for the child without knowing the child has a skills that if child eventually embark on skills the child can also excel to be like the successful man but the pressure of the parents of the child becoming what they desire the child to be, and wrong decision on several child by their parents has misleaded Many child ending up of doing well in his education.so former education mandatory is not for every child because there are many child that are very talented with a great skills that they needed to work on the skills to be greater tomorrow but some child that might end up finishing his/her education may still finish school without getting jobs but can also end up going to learn a skills that can be of helpful to them.

You are right, but it's very important for parents to guild their children to go to school or even force them if possible, because they are doing them good and it's for their own benefits both now and for their future too.
Even if they have the right to make decisions of their own but they should be convinced that going to school or having an educational value.

You are correct DiMarxist formal education should be given to every child because it is very important in their life, education will help a child no what is happening in his or her society a child should be able to know how to read and write and also how to Express his or herself a formal education will give a child all this, after a child must have known all these in school and then they can decide not to further his education it won't affect them in other areas of life they will choose to go into but if they don't have this formal education no matter the area they choose to go into it will really affect them because knowing how to read and write and Express yourself is very important in every area of life.
Some set of people who did not have a formal education and they decided to venture into business our finding it difficult in their business right now and they regret why they did not get information so you see in whichever area of life you need a formal education go grow more bigger.

To be honest, it's not mandatory, but the government requires it to standardize children's competency in living in society or the state. To meet this requirement, governments in various countries require formal education. However, it's not the only path to national life. Non-formal education is also quite effective if properly mapped to children's needs for life.

And yes, a diploma is very important in certain countries with specific job requirements in the formal sector. This serves as a standard and serves as a reference for why formal education is mandatory.

Education awakens the conscience of the people and takes the people to the peak of development. If a person does not have education, he will never be able to achieve humanity. If he has to achieve humanity, then of course good education is necessary. I think that if a person is a child, if he is educated with good education from the beginning, he will be able to achieve something good when he grows up and if a child is not educated and if he is not sent to school, he will never be able to become an educated person and if he cannot become an educated person, it is not possible to expect anything good for the country and society from him. If you look in your country or outside the world, you will see that all the people who have achieved big positions or are in good posts have all had good quality education, due to which they are in such good quality posts today and are doing good things for the country.

Suppose you are given an engineering job or you are shown a patient dressed as a doctor. Now if you do not have engineering skills or medical education or skills, you will never be able to do engineering work or serve a patient. So no matter what you say, the importance of education is immense to improve your life. Without education, you can never hope to improve your life.

Every child has a right to education, it's an inalienable right of the child to be educated at least with the basic level of education before we can start debating on whether or not they should have the volition to choose either to further their education to the degree level or go for a skill acquisition or get on with a business.

Moreover, as parents we all should be able to discover the different talents our children possesses because most definitely as they grow they exhibit their talents in various ways, and through there we are able to know if they are going to excel better with higher classroom education or some skills acquisitions.

Apart from having a career from formal education, it provides an understanding of having a purpose in life. If you research the people who are on the streets and committing crimes, you will see that 98% of the people you find have no education.

Not having formal education is a problem for society because people who lack it only think about how to commit crimes and make society uncomfortable for others. One of the benefits of formal education is that it improves reasoning skills, and from this reasoning, innovations are created. The reason for good development and civilization is due to formal education, and every child deserves it for a better life.

Is there a society right now that don't prioritized education for kids? If there is one then it's not a mandatory. But we have learn throughout history that education is very important. It is something that we can give to our children so that they will have a good life.

Whatever the arguments against education though, it just boils down to one factor, it is the only thing that we can partake to our kids sort of inheritance to have them schooled even if we parents didn't have one. And because we don't like our children to be like one of us who don't have formal education and makes our lives very hard to get a decent job because every company is looking for diploma and what you have finished in school.

Giving them formal education is a right in my opinion and not something that is open for debate. Education is not just about job and that's where the problem is. People were initially mislead and assumed school/education to be the way to wealth. Education will not fall money from sky for you, it can only equip you with knowledge which you can use to make money if you know how to use it.


Very very mandatory, in my opinion.


Everything learn during childhood is more better than during adulthood when your attention is already divided. However, learning a skill or trade shouldn't be prioritised over their education. Moreover, they can learn both simultaneously and picked up if they have adequate supervision under a qualified trainer and teacher.

Very Very important, i mean this matter u just raised @ op.
Education for all is part of the slogan for education propaganda (that is if you don't believe in education).
Talking about childhood echo of education, it seems similar with what went on around and for sure similarly with majority here. Concerning those days, you shouldn't forget about the difference in the level of peoples awareness back then and now! It's no joke how some still wallow in some orientation that is now to a great extent unnecessarily helpless with little to offer. Examples is the idea that if you don't go to school that you will be poor, and this brings us to mark and see the difference between school and education! At a point also in time past, was the idea that education takes place even in the kitchen.... If that is true with you, it would have been an idea to spread the awareness of the difference between school and education may be.
Is there really any difference between schooling and education?
In my opinion yes, why and how? Because a kind of education is meant to take place in school e.g engineering, accounting etc including general education, Learning or knowledge that could be found among different people.

Making formal basic schooling important not necessarily mandatory will help children on some basic things like decoding a lot of code instead of seeking someone's help (and opinions as the case would be) just like in those times past of which it is still happening even among teenagers. How helpless it is to seek some one to read and write any thing for you. Acquiring formal basic schooling to get some level of formal education is important.
Now to look at it,.... You must not go to school before you know how to read and write...   but in most cases the difference is usually clear between those who had basic schooling and those who just learnt how to read and write to talk of higher schools. So formal basic schooling to acquire some level and kind of education that will help children to decode a lot of codes is important...

Also, having formal schooling to get some kind of education does not mean no apprenticeship...
Letting children choose to go to school or not does not make sense..  This could happen regarding higher school but not basic school. Children should be given the privilege to formal basic schooling as much as possible, apprenticeship can follow-up.

No matter how you may choose to wrap or twist it, education remains the key to success. Formal education should be made mandatory for every child. People always fail to look at the primary importance of education, there focus is always on the secondary importance of education which to get a job. With education comes light, one maybe rich but without education they will be wallowing in darkness.Having a skill is good but that doesn't mean one shouldn't be educated. I believe if there is anytime education should be made mandatory should be now, because without education one will find it difficult to survive in the society and also to relate and socialise with others will become a problem.

Formal education is the basics and foundation of wisdom, knowledge and understanding. When a child dont know how to read or write, he find it difficult to express and relate with people in the society. And if by change he finds him/her self in a big opportunity that will change life, there will be nothing to show forth.   Whoever may have tell you, its of no importance is giving a wrong advise to you.

Well for me I do think the children do need to have some education. We must have children that can read and write and just to have some basic skills.
I do think it does need to be this way. I can not even think of my nephews not going to school right now. It does become different for each child when they are older.
Some can go to university and some can go to trade schools. Or if they do have a job and do not need that I think it is ok for them to not go to the university or a trade school.

A child can not decide what they want to become from when they are very tender the best thing should be to give them the opportunity to have formal education so that they can at least know how to read and write so that they will not find it difficult to associate with others even though they decide to choose a different part tomorrow, a child can not decide to start learning trading when he can't write what he wants to buy or sell it will be different to learn trading when the child has no form of education. The best should be to send the child to school during the long holidays you can use the opportunity to enroll the child into getting a skill so that by the time he or she is done with high school he's already had his education and a skill which can also assist him if he decides to get into the university.