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Education is about respecting the world enough to realise that you can make a difference, and by making a difference the world will then be rescued from its peril. Education provokes quick, resolute and effective thought and this, in conjunction with the character of a person can save the world from jeopardy. Which occurance would be inevitable if not for the new ideas and efforts of the next generation. Education is also about respecting and loving your children enough to provide for them the freedom to explore and experience the world as an individual. Education must enable one to discern true from false, real from unreal and fact from fiction. Education must shape the character of a person through experience, learning, and knowledge. To arrest your children from this undiscovered appreciation and knowledge would only leave the world in peril. Giving children education is giving them the courage to take on and repair the world through intelligence and character – which are the two true goals of education. In order to explore these particular ideas regarding education several readings will be utilised. “My Place” by Sally Morgan is a biography about the reader’s h