Is it important that people stay informed?

I want to write an opinion essay about "Is it important that people stay informed?" to show you why I think it’s necessary that people stay informed.
Nowadays we can get a lot of information about the whole world by, for example, newspaper, television, radio, internet, etc.

First of all, it’s definitely important that people stay informed because so they know what’s going on in the world.
For example when there is a tornado somewhere you live, then you can get information about it. So you are not completely delimited from the rest of the world.
Also when there is a political selection. You can read or hear a lot of things about such stuff from the news. You will have a clue about everything.
So this leads me to the next point.
It’s also important that we all stay informed because we can get general knowledge from the newspaper, radio, television,… Then we can communicate with other people about things which are currently new in the world. For example, you meet somebody new and you don’t want to tell this person something personal. News are always a good topic to talk about and everyone has his own opinion in every domain. If you know what the person thinks about one topic, you will already know a lot of him.
The next point is, that you will need a lot of things, which are in the news, in school. In my class, subject geography, our teacher asks us questions about politic. When we watch the news the day before, we would know them. The teacher thinks it’s important for our life to know what’s going on in the world and that is also important in my point of view. But there is indeed one problem and that is the education. If the parents don’t attach importance to the all the important things and maybe live in there own world, the children will be without any thirst of knowledge. This is in my opinion a pity.

To conclude, I think it’s the most important thing to stay informed in our time. We have to know what is going on for every domain in our life, whether it’s for the present or our future. It’s not difficult to get some information and especially parents should take care of the general knowledge of their children.
Because without knowledge you will achieve nothing.