Aristotle, one of the great Greek philosophers, once said;"the roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet". So, it takes great efforts of the person to become an educated one. I consider that it is really a treasure to have education. Not in vain the proverb says: ' Better unborn than untaught." In my opinion, it is very difficult and takes a lot of time to get good knowledge and become a useful person for the country you live in. Really. it advances by steps and not by leaps and bounds. To my mind, it is a long hard work. For example , a pupil who wants to obtain USE. to have good marks and certainly good knowledge to be ready to enter the University needs 11 years of hard diligent everyday work. Another example can be great poets and scientists who spent all the life creating their masterpieces and only after that they could prove that they are really genius and have enough knowledge to be useful and necessary for their own country. Therefore, they can be called true sons of their country.

So, I would tend to think that it is never too late to learn, although it takes lots of time and efforts. From my points of view, we should always remember that knowledge is power and it is not a burden

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Getting a good education is also a very important value for me. For the last 20 to 30 years, my family has suffered through a war and lost almost everything. Now education has given me a chance to get some of these things back.