I like to think of education as a “Gate” to the future. This idea comes from the Japanese anime <Doraemon>. In this anime, Doraemon has a “Anywhere Door” called “Dokodemo Door” and it allows Doraemon and other characters to travel to other locations by simply walk through that door. This door acts as a convenient portal and it’s the top 5 thing I wanted when I was a little kid.

Anywhere Door (Dokodemo Door in Japanese, and Anywhere Door in English)

            I chose this metaphor because I believe education can be used as a “Gate to the future” because education provides opportunities for us to learn, explore and thrive on things that interests us and help us build short-term and long-term goals to achieve the self that we dreamed to become.

            I believe it is an appropriate metaphor because it showed a direct illustration of how education’s impacts on people’s lives.

We often think education as the key to open the gate to access great things, to find lifelong pursues. Since metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. I believe this metaphor emphasized on the importance of education and influenced people unconsciously to take education seriously.

Self Reflection: I chose this topic because I found it very interesting, and I had this “Gate” idea for a long time. As a student grew up in China, I have been told how education is important for people repeatedly and how can change their “fate” through education. Sometimes it sounds exaggerated, but I do agree with the fundamental idea that education does open the “gate” for people to revise their vision of the world. Education connect people to the future and to the help people find lifelong pursue.