Education is crucial for promoting healthier lifestyles and higher incomes, leading to better food choices and awareness of self-care. It fosters ethical values, reduces prejudices, and opens opportunities for personal and professional growth, particularly for women and marginalized social classes. Ultimately, education empowers individuals, instills positive values, and contributes to overall happiness and self-dependence.

1. Why Is Education
Important?
Presentation by Ben Tam & Fiona Wong

2. Education transcends
living a healthier lifestyle
• Education promotes higher income so that people
can afford better food
• Promotes awareness to take care of one self
• Our daily consumption has long-term effects
• Education is linked to having healthier relationships

3. Education promotes ethical values that help
make the world more peaceful
• Reduces prejudices through personal experience and
interactions rather than believing in misinformed
and stereotyped portrayal of other cultures and
religion
• Allows individuals to cross cultural and language
barriers
• Influences open-mindedness

4. Education instills positive
values in younger generations
• Keeping individuals away from being incarcerated
and illegal activities
• Education is the force that allows individuals to
reach their potential, to dream bigger dreams, and to
be more fully engaged with a much bigger world
• The more educated an individual is, the better career
options they can have in the future

5. Education bridges the differences between
social classes and genders
• 1974, women made 59% of median annual earnings as
percentage of men’s median annual earnings for full-time.
• In 2014, women made 79% of median annual earnings as
percentage of men’s median annual earnings for full-time.
• This difference was made possible for higher earning job
opportunities for women
• It opens a whole world of opportunities for the poor so
that they may have an equal shot at well paying jobs.
Education also plays a major role in women
empowerment and allows the ideals of feminism

6. Education leads to happiness abound:
stable, balanced, self-dependent life
• Being self dependent and financially stable, is
necessary for an individual to have a stable mind and
to feel good from within
• Being educated allows an individual to have a better
understanding of the world
• Education allows people to know that they can make
a difference
• Education can turn a persons dreams into reality and
builds self-confidence