There is a story that I believe many people have heard: "1972, a" wolf child "living with wolves was found in a forest in India. This "wolf child" has no human characteristics, does not understand human language, and therefore has no human consciousness. Long after the wolf child returns to the world, he is still a wolf. He doesn't sleep during the day and walks at night, eats and sleeps, and howls when he is hungry ... This fact shows that although people have excellent genetic quality, if they leave the social environment and lose the influence of education, they will not be able to develop or even lose their human characteristics.

On the factors that affect human development, heredity is only the biological premise of human development, environment and education play a decisive role, while education plays a leading role, because education is a purposeful, planned and systematic process to promote human all-round development. Education is to help people survive and develop.

Individuals need education to gain viability. People are "social animals". People can only survive in society, but we are all a blank sheet of paper, without survival skills and helpless. Education can make a naturally weak and helpless individual gradually grow into an independent, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-confident and self-help individual.

Individuals need education more if they want to be recognized by society. In today's society, all walks of life need corresponding education if they want to enter the threshold. If they want to be teachers, they need a teacher qualification certificate. To be an accountant, you need an accounting certificate. If you want to be a lawyer, you must have a lawyer's certificate. If you want to take an examination of civil servants, you must meet the corresponding academic requirements.

Developing people's potential is also inseparable from education. The study of modern brain physiology shows that any nerve cell has a process of growth and development, and its growth and development is driven by external stimuli, mainly systematic learning and training. After learning and training, a nerve fiber will branch out many side branches and grow complex dendrites, so its structure is more and more complex and its functions are more and more abundant and perfect. Generally speaking, stimulating people's brains through study and training will make them smarter and smarter. The more you use your brain, the more brilliant it will be, and it will rust if you don't use it.

Not only we human beings need education, but also human society needs education to maintain its continuation and development. The fundamental difference between human society and animal kingdom is that human beings have culture. Human beings are not as strong as cattle, and they are not as good as horses. Cattle and horses are used by people. Why? The answer is that human beings are literate. However, it is education that makes it possible to preserve, continue, develop and enrich culture. If there is no education, every generation will start from digging a well for fire, then human beings will always stay in the age of ignorance, let alone development, even survival will become a problem, and it is likely to disappear from the earth forever like those extinct animals.

"If a person has a real education, he is the gentlest and most sacred creature; But if he has no education, or received the wrong education, he is the most difficult thing to control in the world. There is no doubt that stupid people need to be taught so that they can get rid of their innate stupidity. In fact, smart people need education more. If a lively mind has nothing serious to do, it will be trapped by useless, strange and harmful thoughts and will become the cause of its own destruction. "