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Celebrate: Kwanzaa

Celebrate: Kwanzaa. Celebrate Education: The Greatest Gift of All. Education is Freedom. One of the keys to personal freedom is making a decent income (US Census Bureau Data/Median Incomes). I didn’t graduate high school: $21,000/year I graduated high school only: $30,800/year

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Celebrate: Kwanzaa

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  1. Celebrate: Kwanzaa Celebrate Education: The Greatest Gift of All

  2. Education is Freedom • One of the keys to personal freedom is making a decent income (US Census Bureau Data/Median Incomes) • I didn’t graduate high school: $21,000/year • I graduated high school only: $30,800/year • I just received an associate degree: $37,600/year • I just received a bachelor’s degree: $49,900/year • I just received a master’s degree: $59,500/year • I just received a doctorate degree: $79,400/year

  3. Education is Healthy • Lower smoking rates: increases quality and length of life • Education promotes a positive self image: confidence provides enriched life experience and mental well being • Education provides lifelong learning: increases brain cells and decreases Alzheimer’s and other degenerative brain conditions due to age • Education decreases obesity • Education decreases risk of heart disease

  4. Education is Social Networking • Education helps to develop new interests • Education promotes lifelong friends including teachers, counselors and others who assist in guiding and planning • Education helps to decide a profession or field of interest; it even provides opportunities to “test drive” a profession

  5. Education Develops Life Skills • Technology • Rights as a citizen: voting, issues, environment • Reasoning skills that help in decision making, relationships, moral judgments, tolerance, reflection, and communication • Education helps to “walk in another’s shoes” • Education provides a safe place to practice skills before entering the workplace

  6. The Future and Education • Most will change careers at least four times within a lifetime • The future will use technology not yet invented • The future will have access to information at all times in all places • The top ten in demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004 • By 2018 the United States will need 22 million new college degrees-but will fall short of that number by at least 3 million postsecondary degrees • By 2018 the United States will need at least 4.7 million new workers with postsecondary certificates

  7. Celebrate Education • Fiscal and Personal Health • A Lifelong Network of Professional and Personal Friends • Develops Life Skills That Can be Passed on to Family and Community

  8. Celebrate Education • Commits Social Responsibility to the Future and to Future Generations • Education is the Great Equalizer for Ethnic and Socio-economic conditions – it balances life • Education is Fun and is a Lifestyle/The Journey is Lifelong

  9. Joyous Kwanzaa !

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