2012年12月英语四级作文

应该理解为教育投资，或者说教育回报。
pay本身有“付款，支付，承担”的意思，它的用法通常是pay for... 也就是为。。。付款或者为。。。买单；然后结合后面的介绍，可以理解这里的pay为什么加了复数s，意思就是教育为很多事情买单，比如说你的工资，待遇，地位等等。pay强调支付的目的，所以可以理解为投资。
而如果想按照大家理解的教育花费的话，应该是education costs。 cost才是花费，费用的意思。

严重认为pays特别让人产生歧义，pay的意思有很多：
vt. 支付，付；偿还，补偿
vi. 付款；偿还
n. 工资，薪水；付款
所以这个单词两重性很高。

教育投资啊

What is shown in the chart above is that those people with high degree earn more than those with lower. For example, staff with master’s degree receive a better payment than those with bachelor’s degree, according to a survey of the payment to the employee. These survey indicates that education degree does have a relationship with earnings, contrary to the recent theory of useless education.
Recently, there is a heated discussion about the significance of the education. Some people hold a view that higher education is useless since college education cannot mesh with the social needs. Some think that higher education is indispensable if you want to go far in both your studies and life. Now that survey has proved which part is wiser.
　　As for me, I definitely support the view that education is necessary for people’s life. Reading can not only make me survive well in this society with fierce competition but also help me make sense of life. I pursue for it for my whole life.

unemployment ,说的是学历与失业率 的关系

education pays