In addition to skills and knowledge, education gives you an opportunity to _

Opportunity to become a good human.

Explanation:

Education is that tool which equips a person with many other tools which help him living his further life better. Education gives a person knowledge, skills, etc. People educate themselves to cope in the vast sea of the universe. These are some worldly benefits of education. Besides these, education gives a person an opportunity to become a good human. Education enhances a person's analytical skills, his skills of reasoning, etc, with the help of which he becomes able to distinguish between right and wrong. Education gives a way of life. Education gives self containment, Self confidence. When a person tries to find out the difference between good and bad, he becomes a good person, because education is the only way through which the minds of people gets open to thinking.

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confederacy: supported slavery, believed states should be able to nullify federal laws, supported low tariffs

union: everything else