Writing for Young Egyptians

The question I'm going to answer on the Egyptian text "Be a Scribe" is:

• What does learning to write offer to a young Egyptian? What advantages of a scribal position are suggested in the document?

The skill of learning to write provides a better life for young Egyptians then if they were to master another profession. They do not have to suffer like the washermen, the cobblers, the merchants, the outworkers, peasants, and the soldiers. Each one has many difficulties associated with their profession that make them unhappy and inferior to being a scribe which is why it is seen as being a privilege to learn how to write. Being a scribe gives them more satisfaction than "bread and beer" or "clothing and ointment." According to the document, it is "worth more than an inheritance in Egypt, than a tomb in the west." As a scribe, an Egyptian would be valuable and highly-esteemed with the King himself and have fine clothes and horses and slaves and many other gifts given to him by the King. It is an honor to be a scribe! They receive the knowledge and superiority without doing the hard work which is definitely an advantage.