It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better-paid jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t.

It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn’t accepted by all people. Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life getting education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don’t need to spend so much time at school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and maths need not be taught in detail (详细地) either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.

Education is well-rounded and it is mainly for improving a man. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. After that, it is to make him a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of humans. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch good plays and take an interest in the world.

I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most important or the main reason.

China’s second female astronaut（女宇航员）, Wang Yaping, gave the country’s first-ever video lesson from space. The whole lesson lasted about 40 minutes.

Speaking to students through live video, from the Tiangong-1 space laboratory, Ms. Wang did an experiment（实验）with the help of the other astronaut.

Ms. Wang used different experiments to demonstrate the meaning of weight and mass in space（太空）. At the end of the class, Ms. Wang made a film（薄膜）of water using a metal ring. She then turned the film of water into a water ball by pouring more water on it. Around 330 primary and middle school students watched the lesson from a special classroom in Beijing, where they could also ask Ms. Wang questions through live video. The students were so excited that they applauded（鼓掌）from time to time.

When answering a student’s question, Ms.Wang described what she could see in space. “The stars we see are much brighter, but they do not twinkle,” she said, “The sky we see isn’t blue, but black. And every day, we can see the sun rise（日出）16 times because we circle the Earth every 90 minutes.”

About 60 million students and teachers around China also watched the lesson live on TV.