The Importance of Being Educated by Jean Webster
I found a piece of work behind the book in the bookstore that I periodically visit. That piece of work engaged my unconsciousness and moved my hand to grab the book. Would you want to know that kind of work? Here is the piece of work that I told you:
I suppose I might call you Dear Mr. Girl-Hater. Only that's rather insulting to me. Â Or Dear Mr. Rich-Man, but that's insulting to you, as though money were the only important thing about you. Besides, being rich is such a very external quality. Maybe you won't stay rich all your life; lots of very clever men get smashed up in Wall Street. Â But at least you will stay tall all your life! So I've decided to call you Dear Daddy-Long-Legs. I hope you won't mind. It's just a private pet name we won't tell Mrs. Lippett.
When I read that piece of the work, I knew that I can enjoy this book so much, because it may contain deep description about being a girl or a woman and also becoming a human being who does not only see the material things in life. However, my assumption is imperfectly accurate; but at least, it represents what have been told on the book.
Daddy Long Legs, the book that I have described above, was written by Jean Webster. This book had been adopted into various movies, and had been something so popular in long times.Â
However, those movies tend to exposure the romance schemes in this book, and tend to ignore the strong messages that represented by Jerusha âJuddyâ Abbot. Those messages are mostly about gender equality, education, social classes, and diversity which have been derived from the observations of Jean Webster in the time when she lived.
In details, the book strongly advocates the urge of womanâs education as well as access to education itself, and this message is still suitable with what our people face nowadays, that is limited access for being educated, whether it is because of lack of funding or lack of information. How can the message on the book that had been published for so long are still related with the condition that we face nowadays? 105 years had passed away.
Beside of the importance of womanâs education that advocated on the book, this book also shows the universal message for everyone; that is the goal of being educated. The goal is not only to have a future profession in life, but also to have a meaning in whatever profession that we choose in life.Â
Well, now I know what is in Jean Websterâs mind when writing a character which is going to be an author like her profession; that is the professions are not only for material gaining, but also for being a better human. It can be shown by another Jean Websterâs activities as social activist, and also the character that she wrote, who strongly shows the message above.
I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be forever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant. It's like farming. Â You can have extensive farming and intensive farming; well, I am going to have intensive living after this. I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to KNOW I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Â Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose all sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not. I've decided to sit down by the way and pile up a lot of little happinesses
 Have your profession helped you to reach your highest potency to become a better human being? I am also wondering about my profession.