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The purpose of education is always been disputed by people. Recently, some people proposed that the most important goal of education is to help people educate themselves. I am totally agreed with this opinion because self-study should be in a primary role. First and foremost, teachers cannot be everywhere and anytime and you cannot rely on others for the whole life. As old saying said, ‘one is never too old to learn’. Study is a life-long career. When we are at school, most of the time teachers teach us. But after we leave the school and come into the society, who can teach us? Teachers are just guiders not ‘nannies’ with us everywhere and at any time. Secondly, self-study is the most useful and efficient studying skill. When we are at junior and senior school, the primary goal of education is to get high marks, then entering celebrated university. But that is only part of education. Education is not just high marks. More importantly, education is a continuous and self-improvement process. According to this, the eventual goal of education is to teach people how to achieve self-improvement. Obviously, teaching people to educate themselves is the best method. In the self-study process, people gather and understand information in a spontaneous way that is more efficient than ‘Duck-stuffing’ teaching. Last but not least, self-study is of great help in the future career. After graduation, we do not have many chances to study like in school in a systematic way. But working also need continuous development. To achieve the specific goal in career, people have to learn to educate themselves. For example, if you are doing a human resources job, you want to get a related certificate in your field for future promotion. At this condition, the importance of self-study is obvious. In conclusion, education is a life-long career. It is not only at school but also after school. So for education, the most important role is not the teachers, but the students. Teachers are only guiders. Students should learn the self-study ability in the long period.