I like this postcard because while I do feel education is important, so is living life. Education will give you the tools you need to help you become successful in life, but in living life, you need to apply those tools and learn when it works and when it doesn't. Because if all you have is tools and no experience of when it works and when it fails, it won't matter.
While I was looking at this postcard, I was trying to figure out a way to apply it to what we've been doing in class for the last week. And what I came up with was this: our English class gives us the tools we need to be able to be not only successful readers, but also people who can analyze anything and find deeper, more complicated, and more sophisticated meanings to things. In class we use these new found tools to usually analyze books, but when we get out into the real world, we can use our analytical minds to find deeper meanings in anything. This way of thinking can dramatically help us in our own lives, if we do it right. But without trying and failing multiple times, we'll never know how to do so. Which brings me back to my main point and the reason why I chose this postcard. Education is very important, but without using what we've learned in real life, we'll never know how to use what we've been taught.
