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My answer to "Why is learning important to you and how has it impacted your life?"

Has anyone imagined how would it be if there is no education at all? I have had first-hand experience and let me give you a virtual-reality experience… There lived a family – mother, father and two kids. The father (henceforth referred to as the ‘hunter’) wakes up right on time to start to work (a sedentary one, of course!). The wife (called ‘attendant’ in the ensuing lines) wakes up early (Nah! She cannot go to work – no one ‘offered’ her education) to attend to all the needs of the family including keeping her husband’s (yes! Coz it’s her duty!) things ready for the day, cooking, cleaning, washing clothes etc. Yet there is no contribution on the other end, just snaps and yells. She tolerates, in fact, feels guilty, that she had not performed her duties right. She feels sad and she regrets for being a bad wife and sometimes, a bad mother (that is how she is induced to infer) …that’s how she has been trained. And that’s the training her girl will get too. The attendant was ‘taug...