Is education the best way
to improve quality of life?

You've heard the story. Give someone a fish and they can eat for a day; teach them to fish and they can eat for a lifetime. Doesn't that depend upon whether they are lazy or not? They will now have to do their own fishing, where previously they just got free fish. Who would choose to work for fish when you can have fish for free? Society is teaching that if they just ask someone to give them a fish they will get one. Many believe society owes them that much. The real question is how do we help those who are getting free fish understand and want to learn how to fish for themselves. We have to help them understand and see those benefits as important enough to do it for themselves. Without that understanding we can teach or talk forever and they would still want free fish. It is just easier. Fishing for yourself requires effort, time and preperation. Before anyone will do that, they need to understand how it works, why it works and see the benefit.

Education can improve the quality of life, but it requires effort and desire from both the student and the teacher. The teacher has to help the student see value in what they are teaching or the student will not learn. It requires the teacher to work around the barriers of "the easy way". The teacher must help the student understand the value of learning to fish for themselves. The teacher must also beleive in that value and provide an example through themselves.