Do you think young people today value their education as much as Sara Smolinsky does? Why or Why not?

Looking at the question above, I find it hard to pick one decisive answer for it. I suppose the value of education is relevant to location (a.k.a where you live) and what kind of environment you were raised in (a.k.a family, morals/values, ect...). My personal experience of growing up in an middle to upper-middle class area, near one of the biggest cities in the country, is that education is viewed as important by parents and children alike. Because of this, the students take such education seriously if for no other reason than they will have a harder life should they shun such opportunity. Yet, I don't believe the students around me fully value or appreciate the tremendous advantage our advanced education gives us. 

Compare our lives to that of Sara's as we've seen so far, and even the most oblivious of us can see there is little to no resemblance between her childhood and most of ours. We most likely did not grow up in squalor and filth. We had toothbrushes and towels, running water and enough food to keep us satisfied. We had access to clean drinking water and new clothes and an allowance. We didn't have to work twelve hours a day six days a week in order to keep from starving. So no, looking at the people around me, we don't value such an education quite as much as Sara. That's not to say we take it for granted, but it is not the be-all end-all of our lives.

Yet, look to those who do live in conditions similar to Sara's. For those people, like Sara, education was and is a gateway to a better life and, really, a better world.