Why education is very important?

For everything in this world we use a tool. For example, to clean our tooth we use a brush which is a tool, to cook food we use various utensils as tools, to move from one place to another we use a car which is a tool. Similarly we need some tool to develop and enlighten us and that is the EDUCATION. Without some form of education we are just like any other creature in this world.

There are two types of education - Formal education and Informal education. Formal education is the one which we obtain by going to schools and colleges and the informal education is which we get by experience and not going to colleges or schools. We got to have at least one among these two. However putting into perspective the two education I feel Formal education is more vital; that is because with informal education we only have a Vertical expertise (that is we specialize in only thing and barring that we don't have a broad horizon of knowledge) whereas with formal education we can have an Horizontal Exposure (Knowledge that spans through a wide range of spectrum i.e knowledge about many things) and in the process we can develop Vertical Expertise.

Sometimes we get the sense of feeling that this education is only a hindrance to my ambitions and I got to be a drop out of the school to reach heights (Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg did so, and so will I). But the fact is these are just illusions. The probability of achieving without proper education is very very less and we must be wise enough to understand it. This makes me remember the quote said by Mr.Dhirubhai Ambani (Founder of Reliance industries) 'Without education I became the No.1 in India.  But had I got education, I would have been a numero uno in the world  by now.' In fact those persons who came to various high positions without formal education have made it a point that their children get quality education from top universities in the world. So it is our duty to get the best out of our education. And remember that every single thing that we learn will help us in one or other way at any particular moment in our life. So our education never goes waste. Spiritual experts says that our 'gynam' (meaning Knowledge) will always be carried over by our soul, gets accumulated and helps in the process of evolution.