Why to further your education

Furthering your education is a Plus

General purpose: To persuade

Specific purpose: To persuade students and teenagers to further their education after high

school.

Central idea: By furthering education after high school people are less likely to get

Pregnant as teens or before marriage, gets put on welfare, and are more likely to make better pay.

INTRODUCTION

1. Attention material

A. Two brothers Ellis and Kidd both graduated from high school.

B. After high school Ellis went on to college and Kidd decided to get a minimum wage paying job, while looking for a companion.

C. Ellis not only thought of himself but his future and what would be best for him in life. All Kidd wanted to do was marry a rich woman and depend on her.

D. Two years after high school Ellis was still in college studying secondary education. On the other hand Kidd had gotten his girlfriend pregnant, got married, been divorced, and was supporting his daughter on welfare.

E. Ellis went on to graduate from college, become a secondary teacher, get married, and has an ideal family.

2. Orienting material

A. Do to student loans, grants, and scholarships anyone who sets their mind to it can go to college.

B. By staying in school and getting a steady job we can reduce the amount of money the government spends on welfare for people who have no education.

(Lets begin by looking at how serious the problem is...)

BODY

1. Not furthering education is causing more families and children to be put on welfare

A. Approximately five million families and almost ten million children are trapped in poverty, hurting them more than helping them.

B. Divorced, single, or teen parents take in most welfare.

C. And most single and teen parents are people who have not well planed out their future or decided to further their education.

2. Furthering your education has been proven effective

A. Students who go on to further their education are more likely to set their minds

towards an effective future, make better grades, and grow to hold a middle or upper class family.

B. It is also proven that kids that come from middle and upper class families are more likely to go on to college

C. So therefor why can't we start encouraging a better and longer education which will make more middle and upper class families and that will reflect more kids going to college.

3. Lets look at the wonderful benefits that come from receiving a college education.

A. You will have the feeling of knowing that you can support your self and your family later in life.

B. No matter what happens after college you always have an education to fall back on.

C. Just picture how less stressful it would be to live with money and be able to pay all of your bills and have the necessities you and your family need.

D. With such rewards of college why would someone not even choose to attempt to work for the great benefits.

(but in conclusion...)

CONCLUSION

A. No matter how much money we offer for college their will still be those who decide to try to make it with no education.

B. But it is always worth trying to get kids going for the best future possible.

C. Furthering your education after high school is just one major step to pursuing a great future.