An Education Makes All the Difference

I recently finished a book called Three Cups of Tea, and I suggest everyone to go read it. It is about one man's mission to educate some of the poorest kids in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and how investing in education is helping to fight terrorism.

An education is the answer to anything, I really believe that all of our worldly problems can be solved if we just invested in education. Too bad our lawmakers don't get it. And those people who ask, at the end of every proposed good bill, but how much is this going to cost us? I hate it when I get that question after I talk about the DREAM Act, or anything to do with health care, education, and services. It makes me think if these people have a heart at all. And how is that a valid question at all? No one deserves to be deprived of an education. It's inhumane, and just a plain stupid move. Our governator really needs to read this book too. I once sat in my friend's diversity class, and I learned of a law in place that allows undocumented students to attend school up to the twelfth grade. If this didn't pass, most of us wouldn't have an education. That is so scary. I am SO glad and grateful that that is a law, because I can't even imagine where we would be if this didn't pass. I felt very lucky that day, because my life depended on this when it was only a bill, just like how my life depends on the passage of DREAM right now, yet I wouldn't have known about it. Most people don't think about it, but law actually affects our lives. I know we DREAMers know that, but I think, for most people, it is something distant. It's time people learn that the DREAM Act needs to pass for this reason; we want it to pass not just because it is a path to residency, but it is a path to liberation by letting us continue our education and contribute more fully to our society instead of wasting time trying to find ways around the many barriers we face.

If it were not law for us to receive up to a high school education, I wonder if DREAM would even exist today. What would I have been doing with the eighteen years of my life people spend in school?

When we fight for the DREAM Act, we are fighting for something bigger than ourselves and our needs. We are fighting for liberation and our human rights. Someone had to fight for us so that we were granted our K-12 education, because that also had opposition. Now it's our turn to continue the fight and show that education for all is THE solution we are looking for. Let's get this right, America.