Topic: What is School for? - page 6. (Read 1687 times)

School is the second place to educate our children, with school our children will get useful knowledge for our children to face the life that will come. In addition to academics and knowledge, in our children's school  will also get the knowledge of character that will print our children's mentality into a good person. So school is very important for our children's future.

I think that being in school has it's own pros and cons. Being it school allows you to meet other people and become friends with them. Also being in school is actually helpful it terms of learning something. It also helps us in realizing what we really do in life, if want to stay in school or not should be our own choice. Not all people that stayed in school succeeded in life, it's always on how you look at things and doing things your own way. Success really depends on how you deal with life the way you want to.

Schools provide basic knowledge, they teach children how to behave in society, but this is still not the most important point.

People may not use the majority of knowledge (let`s be honest) they obtained at school, but they gained the basic skills of learning.

Using this skills, which shall be improved further in the University, later they can focus on the sphere they prefer most. To me this is the greatest advantage of school education - to teach children how to learn.

I think the school is very useful but not all students know the benefits of school, so many think that school is not necessary, even though school is a very useful provision after school, finished, all that can be felt after we work,
So the learning is really needed ...
thanks.

Most of schools builds future employees. But it depends on our teachers. There are good teachers that teaches us about life not just things that we should memorize and forgot a week later. Other educators inspires, motivates and teaches us how to be a good leader. School teaches us how to socialize too and build good relationships in our environment.

The school is not only for learning new things its also for our grooming its teach us how should we behave in our day to day life ,every school has its environment its up to students how they learn  and how they avoid handles  bad things .

Good thing is there are online schools available now. Schools only make individuals either they are superior to others or worse and just lowlifes. That is really the purpose of schools based on my experience.

Your testimony is very comprehensive, it's a reality shared by many students. The educational method used nowadays in the world is a method for masses, the individual is ignored, all that matters are the statistics. Students are just numbers for their local governments.

An alternative for this is the homeschooling. Children and youngs can educate themselves at home, by their parents, by personal teachers or even by themselves and complete a test later to prove they were really educated.

I just made a post on the differences between Schooling and education few minutes ago before stumbling on this post. School in my opinion is simply a place where students ranging from different ages get educated. It can be kindergarten, high school, primary, college or secondary school as we call it here in Africa or tertiary known as the university. But these days the schooling institutions have changed. It now looks like going to school is a complete waste of time because the basic things in real life situations are not being taught. What we are exposed to in the name of studies are outdated formulas and stories. So right now, it is so discouraging to even be in school.

Hello there! School is for education and socializing, in my opinion.


About maths (and all the other sciences really): it's common misconception that this things would not help you in life - many people plan their education in science field, and that background really helps. And for non-science students too, this helps them think logically, and you will have all kinds of calculations in your life, and doing simple maths by a calc is rather miserable =) I'd agree with you about tests - those are the bane of modern education.


You see, the thing is, that learning isn't just about the school. Sure, you may spend all your free time partying and hanging out with your friends, but there are fun and interesting things, that you can learn, and could be useful (and even profitable) in your adult life. On loans and all the stuff you mentioned, isn't maths teaches you how to count? You can spend a week to study all you need to learn about the loans houses and stuff yourself.


It's not really a school thing, rather it's a social. Youngn's these feel a lot of pressure about their future, like they will be worthless if they fail an exam or stuff. It's for parents and friends to relieve such stress, so they won't be lost in the spiral of such stress.


No, it really isn't. I think schools nowadays do not really care at all. And your English is fine.

Well depending on the person they might not need to use academic mathematics in the future still schools make sure that no one is left behind a kid does not know what they want to be in the future as a kid still when they do decide at the age of 17 or 18 they have the option of being what they want if they want to be a computer engineer or w.e that revolves around mathematics then yes they can be it. If they want to be a artist and paint well hey those art classes that they took 2-5 times a week paid off and yes they wouldnt have to use the academic mathematics that they where forced to learn. Still you never know if that kid would of found the passion they loved out of school or learned what was needed.  

I think you are looking at it wrong,  a kid wont usually be depressed from school most of the time it is the parents fault for not being attentive. Say if a kid did decide what they wanted to do with their life they are open to study just that such as going to a all art school or a purely science school.

"We go to school to learn" is the biggest misconception in humankind. says the one completed his education and got a degree in engineering. School just suppresses a certain mindset on you so that you will obey the authority when you grow up. hopefully people in the future leverage the internet to get themselves educated.

For me SCHOOL is our 2nd house and TEACHER is our 2nd mom/mommy/mother/mama school makes us more creative and friendly to each other school makes us more Intellegent and Respectful,if you are going to School and make good deeds you will success in all your works thats all thank you

School is to provide the basic knowledge of a child that he really needs in life, such as alphabet, reading, calculating, basic science and other stuff. It also and mush help every child or youth to socialize and have more friends. But in most cases, many hate schooling because they think that the things being taught to them is bullshit and it just makes them slave. This is in fact true. But I hope many school still make their students diligent and healthy human kind to the earth and to the society

School isn't as bad as you made it look, or people make it. I guess some have bad experiences, there is probably bad teachers too, and bad schools, but school is necessary, that is where you get your first knowledge and education. I mean yes you can learn that by yourself I guess? But not at age 6. What I would say is that the school system is bad in some countries, and that is the reason most students fail and get depressed, but I think that even the students should start looking at the bright side of school and think about the benefits.

Yes, of course. If you're an engineer, definitely you're going to use all sorts of formulas to solve those complex equations.


From my experience, it is better that I had experienced all those emotions in college; it made me emotionally and physically stronger as an individual.

At school, we're going to learn all the things that our parents can't teach. Maybe one day, you're going to thank some of your teachers for all the knowledge they had imparted on you. So, school prepares us in "the real world".

Jesus there's some really morbid answers here lol, yes school teaches the fundamentals and basics of life, and how to make friends etc.  I may not agree with everything I was taught, or find it useful in everyday life (Looking at you Pythagoras theorem).  But looking back i would much rather go to school than be home schooled.  Making friends throughout school and finding people with common interests is as much as part of it as learning is imo.

ok, this is a complicated assumption. as far as I know the purpose of school is to equip children early with a goodness. form a disciplined personality, and I'm sure there will be benefits in the future.
I am concerned for now that a student has been consumed by the outside world, which should not be the time for them to feel it. you can say it's too early to think of real life, while they are still unstable.
many small examples of students are too early to look for material / money.

If you will ever get stucked on a shit job with a shit pay at that point you will realize "what is school for".
Or when somebody talks to you and you have no idea what they are talking about. Or you need to solve some problem in real life and you don't have the mental elasticity to think how.

To answer directly to your question, is mostly to give you a base education, train your brain and give you a better chance at life by letting you discover what you really like.
You don't become rich or a successful entrepreneur by focusing only on that but by acquiring knowledge, expertise and experience in something, guess where you can do that?

Then if you guys went or you are going to school in north korea i'm sorry for you.

School teaches you how to follow directions and not think for yourself, making you a nice slave, eager to participate in the system based on consumerism. Teachers even tell you how to interpret a book, which should be subjective. School is detrimental to your education because it pries you away from experience for a minimum of 12 years. Experience is the one true teacher.