▶ Your Answer :
Some
people might say that there is no noticeable difference in educational
environment compared to the past, while others do not. If I have to choose one,
I would say that it has been changed positively and becoming an educated person
is much easier than the past. There are some reasons and examples of this as
follows.
First
of all, people nowadays afford to do what they want to do. To explain, absolute
poverty has reduced, which means that people hardly suffer from lack of
materials. Of course, I admit that there is another kind of poverty called
relative poverty however it has totally different from absolute
poverty. People do not need to only focus on how to put bread on the
table in their lives. This allows a lot of people to
be educated these days. I will take my grandmother
experience as an example. About 50 years ago, it was difficult for people
to study for a long time. The most important thing for them was
earning money for family. Therefore, they got a job as soon as they
graduated from middle school or even elementary school even though they wanted
to study further. It was regarded as the best virtue. Like people in the
period, my grandparents could not go to middle school due to the fact that her
family was too poor. She quitted the school to earn money although she was
eager to learn. She sometimes told me that she envied me because I can study freely
without worrying about livelihood.
On
top of that, there are a lot of opportunities to be educated in this society.
People can learn whenever they want in many various ways. Also, they are able
to get high-quality information wherever they are. This is attributed to
advanced technology and it makes it possible for people to access to
information and learn easily. For instance, my friend, Suzy chose to have
a job inevitably instead of entering a university because of her financial
problem. However, she really wanted to study psychology so she searched
some ways to learn about it. Finally, she found one way which was a
program provided by one of the best colleges in my country. It was made for
people who had to work but wanted to study. What she had to do was taking 20
classes through the internet, which was so convenient for her. With the
program, she could get a bachelor's degree.
To
sum up, people nowadays do not worry about absolute poverty so they can study
as much as they want. Moreover, there are a lot of ways to learn in this
society especially due to the advanced technology. In this regard, it is much
more easier for people to be educated compared to the past.