This paper discuss how important having an education is. It discusses how formal education guarantes power among society.

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Formal Education Guarantying Power In my opinion, I think that formal education is the key to empowerment for everyone. To me power is having the ability to be a leader and be effective in the rural world. In order to be a leader and be effective one must have some type of education. Most jobs in today's society require one to have a high school diploma. If one does not have a job he or she really cannot be effective in today's society, because nothing is free in this world. In a book I read, " Leadership, Authority, and Power sharing", by Henry Clay Lindgren, there was little said about power. "By power, we mean the faculty ...

... in the story "Learning to Read, "Many who today hear me somewhere in person, or on television, or those who read something I've said, will think I went to school far beyond the eighth grade" (Malcolm X 220). Malcolm was very smart and had power to get the attention of others, but if he didn't have some form of education he couldn't have done that. In conclusion, education does guarantee power, because without education one does not have power. In order to be a leader you must have some type of education. Without education you cannot go very far in life. In today society, in my opinion, you must obtain some type

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