“The main function of education should be enable people to gain employment.” Do you agree? (CAM 1994)

There are many differerent roles in which the education play. I feel that all the different factors will contribute to allowing people to gain employment. Therefore i agree that the main function would be to let people gain employment. However during the process, it would help a person gain knowledge, improve his character , learn life skills, and thus moulding a better future for himself.

We always say that education should be holistic. It should emphasize the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts. Here the "whole" is being seen as gaining employment and the "interdpendence parts" would be would help a person gain knowledge, improve his character , learn life skills, and thus moulding a better future for himself.

Gaining knowlege is the basic of life and this is what education does. It help you learn skills and facts and know more about this world. We thus apply it in our daily lives. By having knowledge, you would be able to get through tests and exams, allowing yourself to gain access to certificates. With these certificates, they would act as a "passport" to gaining employment.

To improve a person character and to learn life skills would contribute to helping people to gain employment too. How you potray yourself to the world is defined by your character. If you hacve a bad attitude in life, you would not potray yourself well. Thus it would affect your impression on others and the other people would not want to work with you. Thus if education were to help a person improve his or her character, it would definitely be of some help in gaining employement. Learning life skills like how to communicate with others is important too. Learning to speak fluently is not enough. You would have to speak with purpose and understand how to react to circumstances. Even from your body language, an employer would know who to choose. Therefore we can see that teaching life skills as part of education helps gain employment too.

In conclusion, we can see that the main function of education can be to gain employment. The other aspects in education, would all contribute to this main function. Therefore i agree to this statement.