what is a good hook to get people to listen to a speech about why education is important?

Tillie Wynott: free tacos

Elli Esaw: Say what you can do and what you can accomplish with a good education.Or... you can say what people who don't have an education hope for and show how life is without education.

Donella Vasta: "if you dont think education is important than your gay"

Fritz Hawkey: The Internet is a wonderful invention. If you take your subject of your question and add to what you want to know about it, the search engine will do the rest. For example:My subject is Primary and Secondary Education. I want to know where to get certified as a teacher.The search engine result is as follows:Teaching + state certification requirementsWhat you get is this: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Teachin...This will work for any subject category. Give it a try and good luck...Show more

Particia Thorton: I would look for an example of a society where education is not stressed, and tell them about why we need to avoid that. For example, you could ! look for a culture that stressed only skilled trade type work (labour, welding, farming), and point out something about them. For example, they will have worse medical care, no scientific research, no cures, less culture, the list goes on. These people do not have the same pursuit of knowledge.People tend to listen to interesting and unusual historical facts, so I would highly reccommend doing that. Do some quick googling of sociology and see if you can find something. ...Show more