A teacher that can get a student at a young age to realize the value in learning and a solid education is doing a great service not only to that child, but also to society in general. The more that kids want to learn and the smarter that they are the better a society will develop. A person only need to think about the rate of technological innovation to see the importance in education. So much of life today is wholly dependent on the vast array of technological innovations that have come about in fairly recent years, such as computers, cell phones, cars and planes. It is really hard for any person to imagine a world without many of these technological innovations.