march blog 4

Central argument:

1) Studies help an individual to gain an intellectual side to life because it teaches you how to have an opinion.

Sir francis bacon was one of the great philosophers in the time of the renaissance. Bacon is known as the father on inductive reasoning. But today I would like to agree with his argument about studies. Bacon said Studies help an individual to gain an intellectual side to life because it teaches you how to have an opinion. I agree with bacon because an educated person knows what is correct and what is wrong in the hard situations, you can come to good conclusions with educated men and in today’s society without education one get’s nowhere.

What I mean by “an educated person knows what is right and wrong” is that he can come quick and swift conclusions in difficult times. For example in an earthquake an educated person would know not to burst out running instead hide in the corner of the room and block your head. A non educated would just panic and run. This would most probably cause his death. Education will save his life and people would think that he saved himself he is a smart man. But the uneducated man would be looked upon as idiotic and people would pity him.

One can debate with educated men. If the situation is in the United Nations, a non educated man would most probably deceived by the educated men. It happened in the scramble for Africa. The educated Europeans fooled the tribal leaders into selling their own men for slavery. An educated man would never sell their own man. But an uneducated person can be fooled into such foolish things. As bacon said one would look at the Europeans as evil but really smart. The Africans would be pitied but the tribal’s did get fooled and are viewed on as idiots for selling there own men.

In the 21^st century without education people make it nowhere. That’s why in most nations education has become mandatory for a certain age. Without education people cannot survive. As without education people won’t know if they are being cheated by a shop keeper or not. Without education one won’t be able to plan a stable future and survive. Instead of survival of the fittest it would be survival of the most educated.