Topic: What is School for? - page 4. (Read 1714 times)

For me school is a routine habit carried out by children from the age of 5 years until he grows up. School is a means so that we can become quality human beings, useful for ourselves, family, environment, even for the country and nation. School is a place to seek knowledge such as reading, writing, counting.

Well, school is meant to provide a basic education and prepare you for the real world. The trouble is is basic is the key word and there's a great difference between an education and schooling. All schools do is teach you the minimum amount of things you need to know to pass your exams which is all based on the syllabus of the examining body. If something gets removed from it one year then they won't teach you it. If something gets added then they'll start teaching that and it's certainly not based on things you should or need to know that can be applied to the real world. Basically I think schools/exams are just a very long-aptitude test. All that grade you may or may not get at the end of it does is show to people how well you memorized the things you needed to know to pass the test and isn't really a true display of intelligence.

Schools should be teaching people how to think not what to think, and they should also be teaching real-world skills. How to start your own business. How to pay taxes. Health, fitness and nutrition. How to grow your own food etc and so on. You might not need or want any of the skills but at least they're useful and they're certainly better than reading Shakespeare or knowing how to draw and label a very basic drawing of a plant. I wouldn't recommend going to school unless it's absolutely essential for what you want to do in life -- ie become a doctor -- but if you go to school to study business of whatever then why bother? Just start your own business rather than wasting four years of your life. I often find that if you're determined enough and have a drive to succeed then you can work your way up the ranks very fast without any qualifications as many people do. If you're intelligent and hard working then people will see that regardless of your academic qualifications.

A good school should teach you how to communicate with people. The school should give you the basics. After that, I think I should choose the one that you are interested in or need in life. The modern education system is fundamentally wrong. Some people understand math better, some have a better understanding of biology, some like sports. People will never be good at everything, but people who create a curriculum probably have not heard it . Yes, it would be great if the schools were taught things that are useful in life, but probably I’ll not live to this point

For me school is a training ground to enhance individuals capacity or talents.

The reality tho is that most of the schools right now value grades more than the knowledge that the student gets. The is why most of the students cheats and that actually destroy individuals future.


This the reeason why i highly valued schools for the special persons, or schools in the mountains which is not proper yet they value learnings a lot.

As you have said it does not guarantee someones future to be better

Schools are very important for the future, for example we are taught to understand each other. We also get a value that is useful to get a job later in the future.

The best (only?) point of schools is to teach how to learn. Most of knowledge obtained in schools will hardly be useful later, but the skills children used to get this knowledge will stay and will be used later - namely, in higher education.

stay in school. it is good for you.

Schools are basically indoctrination institutions to convince kids from a young age to participate in the rat race, be "nice" and follow directions. Right now, they prepare children for the past and essentially serve as means of babysitting for parents and cities who don't want youth on the street.

Insane that they completely ignore life's most important skills-correct money management, investing, health (emotional and physical).

Makes kids think that sitting down for 8 hours a day under fluorescent lights is normal, with the reward of the weekend to forget their horrible realities and get drunk or buy things to numb the pain.

I think that not all schools are the same and of course there are many things that could be better. There should be definitely be a little bit more freedom once the kids are older so they could choose which path to take and what to focus on so they would feel more motivated. But I think in general it is necessary for kids to get the basic understanding of things in different fields so they could have a great range of knowledge and hopefully interest what is happening in the world.

Plus of course, all the values that have been mentioned above - how to socialise, become responsible for your own work etc.
As the op said there are not that much talk about real life problems such as loans, taxes etc. but again, I think it differs from school to school, because nowadays so many schools have classes for example in economics where they cover such things. Often these things are not mandatory and people don't take these classes.

I also have a friend who is diagnosed with depression because of school. She is really a brilliant girl but it seems like school is taking her light away. I wish her well though so as your friend. Everything will be better soon.

I highly advise you to read the following book : Drop out and get schooled by patrick bet-david.

To train the students for their future, but sometime there are things that they teach in school but the students cannot really use it in the future. So in my own opinion, schooling is just to train the brain of the students.

school in my opinion is important because because schools provide knowledge such as writing, reading, counting etc. and the school also teaches us to be able to socialize with school friends

Keynes also said, “Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.”

For childs indoctrination into a way of thinking that will only benefit the goverments and the rich in the long term

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Education is highly essential for good work and quality of life.

In modern society school gives you status rather than knowledge. You can learn the majority of the tools that we'll be needing in the future or even now in internet. I can recommend you stay, make friend and have fun but if you really want to learn something, you can start now from where you are 

Based on my real life. Actually, it doesn't have any use especially in everyday survival and living except for those who use them for a living or work.

School, personally, is for exposing the realities of life. Let's say that the school is the microcosm we live in for some time and letting us experience what we might not have or to have.

I do not put the pinnacle of value towards academics, but rather the curriculum - the whole experience of the student. However, to not deviate from the question, academics prevent us to be the fool especially in the Philippines where we are considered one of the most confident and most ignorant of key issues surrounding our country. I am not a maths teacher (yes, maths because it's mathematics and not mathematic), but I can certainly tell you that the school has a curriculum for both the lost and found. For example, you might have studied a specialization that you do not like, and find resort to a general education subject. The beauty of offering general education courses is that it lets you think outside your comfort zone and lets you challenge yourself.

The bias is there when you say that the school is destroying passions. There are bad teachers and good teachers, and there is a bad system if all teachers are deemed bad and kills passions. In the Philippines, my own analysis is that we might not have the best system because we're currently being trained to coddle students, which in turn makes some students entitled, irresponsible, and not resilient.

Learning is a complex thing. It is false to blame everything to the school when it can be your parents, friends, or even yourself is to be blamed. Passions, on the other hand, are the wants of our heart: our inner and deepest desire. If passions are true, it can never die. The school is changing towards catering multiple intelligences, and it is very hard to explain how does it really work when you have diverse learners.

On school that doesn't teach you how loan works, etc. Teachers and the school aren't the right people. Why do you think the customer service industry exists? It is because of things that we do not teach in school that we give importance to. We've created an industry for those specific matters.

Blaming things towards the school won't help, but the school is trying. If the school is to lower enthusiasm, why did these issues not arise before? And why has the system existed for so long? Remember, mental health is not to be blamed solely to the school because mental health is more complex than it seems.*

*Try consulting a psychologist/psychometrician/psychiatrist for this. This is a blatant attack on the school when it is trying. Like cultural, epoch change (ex. Facebook culture making us rush ourselves towards greatness, etc.), among others.

School  help students to achieve a well-rounded knowledge base, which leads to a more enriching life.School is also important for developing important social skills. Communication skills are important for succeeding in a wide range of fields, and spending time with others improves students' social skills.