Education helps us build our careers, but to decide that the field we're choosing is right or wrong it’s on students. Mark Edmundson in Who are You and What Are You Doing? and Nikole Hannah-Jones in School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson both talk about the issues that students face inequality and confusion between choosing career that makes money or something that we are passionate about. Every student has dream to reach certain goals in their life and to achieve that aim they must improve the way of their think. Students have hard time to understand the concept of education and the both pieces written by Edmundson and Jones can help them to bring change in education. It is important for students to bring change, so the students can get equal opportunity in term of individuality and social empathy.…show more content… The goal of education is bringing awareness and it’s a way from student to improve their knowledge and to prove themselves in society but choosing something that they are not interested in can bring them into complete different path. As Edmundson says, "America values power and money, big players with big bucks" (407). Success is important in life but more than that we must know that it's not always about be at the top and having money. To change that thinking we does not have to do something that we're not interested in. If someone is having successful career in their field that does not mean that we also must do that. Edmundson argues, “Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play-work you do so easily that it restores you as you go” (414). Education can’t be compared as money or competition where everyone wants to come first, we must know that it’s about passion because if student decide to choose subject that he’s interested in it will make his or her aim
