Education has the ability to train a mind to be successful. Success can be measured in a variety of forms but none the less education gets you there. Education is a substance of power, it has the power to influence, impact goals, motivate, and many other things. Each action taken in life, every choice we make is influenced by our education and the knowledge we have gathered. The power of education has the ability to affect our daily lives.
             Education can impact and promote personal growth starting from childhood. Every child grows up with dreams of careers and what they wish to do with their lives. In America we have a standard of education being that everyone attends school until the age sixteen where education then becomes a choice. Teachers bring motivation through school and enlighten us so that one day we will develop a want (maybedesire? will have more impact) for our own education to better ourselves. Our childhoods develop a curiosity for learning and how things work. (In a child's adolescence they develop curiosity?
             John Taylor Gatto writes in "The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher," that through a series of his steps a child will be motivated for a successful life. He describes seven steps in teaching children so that they will be able to benefit from the ways they are taught. One stating that curiosity is needed to enable alertness for learning(.) "Confusion is thrust upon kids by too many strange adults, each working alone with only the thinnest relationship with each other, pretending for the most part to expertise they do not possess" (Gatto 174). Curiosity draws attention from an individual allowing it to become a main focus of study. With curiosity there comes a growing interest and if you keep that interest growing you will be able to use education to fulfill a life in an area you are most interested in. Studying in college is a choice of education where you are able to pick and choose what you wish to study. This allow...