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I am actually inspired by a public figure in facebook, and it really affect me and make me questioned myself What is school for actually?

As a student, I wonder how can these academics studies will benefit students in their future? Are these complex mathematics problems/ equation will going to have a real life use in the future? It also doesn't make sense to me why school system is forcefeeding all the knowledge in 6 hours per day and then measures all the knowledge you memorize thru a papertest?

What about the students who have a passion in their life but the school is destroying it little by little. Also, school doesn't teach students on how to buy their loans, houses, or any other stuffs that might be useful in their future.

School makes student depressed, suicidal, feel stupid, wanna die, hate life, sick, nervous. Is this what school for? Or maybe I am not just realizing it.

I am an average student, I just feel pity for my classmates who's trying their best but it is not enough. They have dreams but the school is destroying it.  ???

Ps: English is not my native language.

Brainwashing and teaching us to obey authority. I reccomend that anyone that actually cares about their children to home school them and forget about the corrupt schooling system.

School as far as I am concerned only put you on. You get the know the basic of life. With the basic you learn from, you can push yourself to your maximum potential toward your dream.

School is supposedly the training wheels for real life. Unfortunately, a lot of them are hexagon shaped and not circles. A lot but not all of them. I suggest you watch Ken Robinson's TED talk about education. It really is inspirational and thought-provoking.

It is okay thatvwe have this school system as it teaches us the basic education, but the sad thing is, they don't care about the student's physical and emotional health.
This is also another issue. School only focusses on the academics structure but not in the financial aspect. School system does'nt teach students about the need in harnessing their financial literacy. They tend to focus more on a stupid and complex mathematics. Schools are creating employees not entrepreneurs. :(
Yeah, thanks for your suggestion.

Presently, knowledge taught in school is the excuse to keep schools open. The reason for keeping schools open is to brainwash kids into the idea of one-world government.

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For share with people and learn about courses. Its a good opportunity to do mistakes and learn from the others. Live is so short so it better enjoy the ride.

For me, school is not for your future. School is medium that we can learn atitude and social.
But school can help you to find your passion. School is mandatory for me.

For me, school is a place where you can learn how to socialize, how to work with others, how to respect each others. But not only school teach us how to deal with other human being, school also teach us how to deal with responsibilities, such as homework and test. Basically school is a way to prepare ourselves to be better when we were alone.

I somewhat agree with those of you who are against the system. Schools are made to make us average, all the same. To stand in lines, act like one body, obey, listen when people with authority are speaking, learn to copy the behavior of others.
A good aspect of schools is that they teach you the very basics. Basic math, writing, work out your brain a little, teach you to work at home and to learn. I know some people with only primary school education and they are incredibly dumb when compared to students, despite being older.

Another good aspect of schools is that they also help in the development of a person as a whole including the social aspects one will always have since first social interactions with many people the same age always happens first on schools. As for basic knowledge though, I doubt they only give that because they also teach advanced mathematics, writing, and skills one wants.

The school is for us to acquire knowledge which the past generations have acquired from their experiences. It also hones our minds to think critically and properly at times. However, this is just making us BE what the adults want US to be. Its making us follow their footsteps, making more and more people like them, making repeated mistakes, living the same lives, over and over and over again. This is why rebels and the like of such a system can make various achievements because they refuse to become similar to them. Of course im not blaming the system, its just the way it has been for a lot of years and is difficult to uproot. But the way they teach us the knowledge they want to impart is a tad bit too stupid in my terms. Instead of encouraging people with low scores, they scorn them. This makes the students accept the fact that they are INDEED stupid. They tell us to score higher so that they can appreciate us more. In my opinion though, students with lower scores should be able to achieve a higher standard than those with higher scores. After all, they have a much larger capacity with regards to improvement, and this should be the way of encouragement schools apply.

School is designed to turn people into slaves

School does not teach critical thinking skills... you are never taught how to think for yourself... you are only taught how to repeat information for a test... you only need to memorize information for a week or so at a time, and after being tested, you can forget it all

Schools don't teach you how to be a business owner, instead they teach you how to be a slave to a business owner

School gets you prepared for the 8-hour work day... which is horrible to be honest... people work 8 hours a day, spend another hour driving to work, another hour on lunch break... that's 10 hours set aside for work... plus 8 hours for sleep, leaves you with 6 hours a day for yourself...  during these 6 hours you have to do other things like shit, shower, shave, cook, eat, take care of the kids/pets, etc... in the end, you are lucky to get an hour a day to spend doing what you want to do (and not much time to think about your situation of being a slave, or how to make it better)

Employers want to pay people as little as possible, so the owner/CEO can take all the profits from the company.

Sounds like a great system, if you enjoy being a slave

It all starts with school

I was thinking about mandatory education as it's the one that shapes a young person and the one that teaches everything at once, which IMO is a bit chaotic.
Higher education is more focused on your preferences and doesn't teach obedience and basic life skills. Although primary schools aren't fine in every aspect but they are needed. It's hard for an average person to achieve anything in life without basic education and guidance.

I think everyone knows the functions and benefits of going to school, the school is useful for getting knowledge such as reading, counting and many more benefits that can be obtained for students, differing opinions about what I think is fair, but in my opinion school is useful in the future

school is useful to get knowledge, school is education that is very necessary for life, if education in a country is good then the economy in the country will be good even the country will be a good country because education will provide many benefits

Formally, people go to school to get education. The process always begins in a little way from our infancy stage. At that level every child is taught how to read and write. If the child continues in his education as he mature into a grown up person definitely he cannot be compared with his peer who was not opportune to go to school. School teaches us so many things; how to relate with others and especially how to face the world after graduation.  School is a preparatory ground to learn and it is a continuous process because what you feel you know today may be obsolete in 10 years’ time. In fact we keep learning even after schooling because nobody is a repository of knowledge; two people may know the solution to a particular problem in two different ways.

to brainwash the young with the beliefs of the rich

Nope, you are on the right track buddy. Schools are producing robots every year they are teaching others how to follow orders because you are going to work for a company and your boss is going to give you orders. Schools are not teaching You stuff they are just training you for your future work but if you do not want to think about the future and care about your present day suggest working on what you like and you believe that your presentation skills if developed can make your future brighter then that is not what schools will focus. That is up to you and you have to give your time and hard work to grow that skill. I am very grateful that I study in a college only because I can study and grow my skills in their given time and can get much more then I have to submit them. Self-study is the main thing for a student and doesn't ever work hard for your educational institute only work hard for your own future.

School is considered to be our second home. It is an institution established that is responsible for a child's growth in every aspect. Be it --- academically, emotionally, spiritually, physically, mentally, socially, and psychologically. However, these factors of learning are sometimes not balanced since some schools unfortunately has different standards and demand regarding a student's performance. Sometimes and in somewhere, they are not aware and appreciative enough to the multiple intelligences of their students. On the pther hand, other schools are paying attention to those and letting them nurture and grow in their own way with proper guide and support. Schools should be a platform for dreams for them to come true and for its students to become anything that they want in a positive manner --- and that is what the school is for.

We can choose a good school for our children and I think not all schools are corrupt, my son has a good school as of now and I don't think that they are just using their school to collect a lot of money, because my observation to my son is improving and he can also improve his communication skills and social skills.

School is where we begin our education but it is not where we complete it. We never stop learning. We learn more from college. We learn from the Internet. The pace of life is accelerating daily and we learn new things all the time. This is the way of life.

No, school make rules to enforce common sense, diligence, and the ability to make a good judgement. If we did not have school rules, students would not waste a second to take advantage of the fact that everything that was once prohibited is now completely fine to do. Take, for example, the school dress code. Our dress code rules teach us to take into account how we look to others by telling us what is and is not appropriate school attire. Without these rules, students are less likely to be well-aware of how to dress appropriately and are more likely to dress indecently and offensively. Secondly, our school rules teach us how to make a good judgement of something. If a rule says "No chewing gum in class", and students choose to follow that rule, then the argument that students will improve their judgement and common sense skills is correct. Why? Because they know that if they do not follow this rule, there will be a consequence for their actions.

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.

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.

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. :-\

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.

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".

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.

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

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

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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 ...
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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 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.

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 personally have a degree in engineering and I totally stand with the Quote by the economist John Maynard Keynes

"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."

This is an excellent topic to tackle since there are a lot of questions now surrounding the world with what to do now? Many people say that education is the key to the future and I agree with it, but it is on a specific study that would allow me to do what I want and what is needed to improve on community interactions and to communicate through different channels. So in schools, they are going to be tackling all general subjects, which is okay but schools need to include life skills, like how the government works and how to deal with forms or something. It is considered extracurricular, but it is what is required in my opinion.

A lot of parents now are starting their children to be homeschooled knowing that they could better focus on them and you would know what they are experiencing. It is ideal but not with interactions with people. It's isolating them if you are not getting everything.

School is just business that a lot of people now are feeling inclined to do, it is somewhat required by society now. For the students who are giving it their all, good job but it's just the start of their lives. There are other ways to do. A lot of rich people haven't finished schooling, but they are successful.

Probably everything has pros and cons; you have to pick and go without regreting it.

School is a place for students to study propaganda. Early indoctrination prevents them from falling victims to truth, historical facts, and real scientific research.

I believe schools have for the most part been used a way to educate us about the importance of hierarchy, to not cheat, and to bow down to our superiors. Although anybody who has generally gotten ahead has been thru cheating, and manipulating the system to their own benefit. Our role models in government and politics show us the corruption and manipulation at the very top.

But I believe schools or at least higher educational institutions will be changing.

I remember when my university once were paid by a consortium to find solutions to academic reforms, and were tasked with writing a paper on ways which the higher education system should be reshaped. One of the suggestions was that big corporations would play more of an active role in education, for example you would be graduating in the future from the universities of big corporations for example McDonalds, IBM, BurgerKing, IKEA  which would promise a job after graduation and dependant on your aptitude and skill set, would determine where you sat within the company structure from frying burgers to sitting in corporate. The programmes appeal for the sponsors would be that there would be a lack of transferable skills.. once you attend big corp university, it wouldn't be easy to migrate to other big corporations. The only plus side to this proposed educational system would be would be FREE.

How do you guys feel about that?

I think that the time of the traditional school system is over. I recently watched a video material about schools in Finlad. I was thrilled at how incredible their system is.For example younger students don't get evaluated and they are able to use smartphones in class but only for educational purposes. Gouverments have a lot to learn from their collegue from Finland.

a nephew of mine goes to a school where they have no pen and paper everything is done on iPads, as a educational experiment.. I member being of an age my school decided to experiment stop teaching us the parrot fashion times table.. and gave as all calculators as they predicted that they would be cheap enough and good enough in the future to not need to teach basic maths.. after my generation were schooled with calculators they moved back to the old traditional forms. Im pretty sure.. this iPad experiment at my nephews school will quietly die and be brushed under the carpet as a mistake.

School is place where children and adult are educated, school will give you sound knowledge, school will teach you on how to behave in the society, you will be prepared from basics to university level where you will acquire more knowledge.

Everything we return to each owner. The purpose of going to school must be completely corrected. To search for SCIENCE, not VALUE. I have watched a film from India that illustrates this, the title is 3 Idiots. The film tells of a very intelligent child who goes to school and college with the aim of seeking knowledge. He did not aim for a diploma, he also did not insist on graduating with good grades (even though he finally graduated with the best grades). When he graduated, he got his diploma and the best student degree for someone else. He only sought knowledge, and in the end he did become a scientist, becoming an inventor. Which of course proves that he has succeeded in becoming a human being useful for his nation and country. Without a diploma! Without the title of the best student! Starting from nobody, but being known for their potential and knowledge. Not because of his degree.
      

I see the role of school, above all, in providing conditions for socialization during the educational and working process. Students are in a team, they learn to perform the assigned tasks not only individually, but also in conjunction, they are collectively responsible for the project that was made together. School provides an opportunity to build and develop the first social ties, it demonstrates the diversity of social roles and prepares kids for a shared future in the human community.

Pretty much this. Took me six years to pay off my student loans just to be a cog in the machine. Took the red pill on society four years ago and haven't looked back since.

First took note of this in 2011 when my senior teachers decided to embarrass me in front of my students because I was teaching them how to save their money. The teachers know they're setting their students up to be slaves and they don't want anything to get in the way of their progress. It's sick.

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.

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

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.”

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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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Education was a very important matter for us to know everything in this world. Sometimes there are some teachers in the school who teaches the students in a wrong history. Like we have in my country, we have here that some school teaches us that one of the politician here died a decades ago already they told us he is a Hero but  after 30 years many of our citizens here found out and discovered that it was all lies, we found out that the Hero they teaches us was a traitor of our country, they deceived all their citizens for a decades.

Basic skills, yes. They are necessary for everybody, but I don`t think that it should take that much time - I believe it is possible to optimize education so it won`t take that much time.

For me, school is not for your future. School is medium that we can learn atitude and social.
But school can help you to find your passion. School is mandatory for me.

School/education serves three purposes in my opinion.

One is to provide knowledge, learning, information and other instances skills, critical thinking.  Although I would say that our school system sorely lacks on this front now and standards of education and knowledge have really diminished.  

Two is economic reasons. The reality is that most people who go to college do it to make more money.  Either just that piece of paper and also a high school degree(vs not having one) means that you will earn substantially more money in your life time. Also you might learn something or more likely from your experiences and what you make of college have some sort of skill that you carry on with you.


Three,  Indoctrination/brainwashing. Society uses institutions(which school/higher education is) to condition people and you could argue in some ways this conditioning is positive at least for the 'society'.  If everyone has a certain standard, they agree(or are forced to out of fear of consequence/shame) to follow certain norms that makes it easier to get along and also for the society to be more productive right?   Education basically conditions people and their behavior and it prepares them for a long life working and being compliant with the government/society/systems.  Even if some tolerance/dissent is allowed it is just that, it's allowed so that can people say what they think and discuss instead of acting on it and to create the illusion that the society is open when in reality the institution and principals and rules of society are very rigid are considered the 'right' ones.

Also college engages in brainwashing students as well now, although this is more political and in my opinion because of a political faction that has a large influence in college and so now people are brainwashed to have a certain ideology and allegiance based on that ideology

The purpose of school is to breed and train children to face the future challenges of life and find their path.

but sad to say most schools nowadays do not meet that need instead instill a spirit of competition and comparison in the heart of the child, not making a conducive environment for the child to harness his/her full potential or ability.

Each child has a unique potential that should be properly nurtured and given attention to by his/her school teacher 

It depends. Friends and connections can get so far. When it comes to being competent on the job, even friends might not tolerate incompetence especially when it hurts their cause.

What is School for?

Nowadays, indoctrination, with a tiny bit of training that supports the indoctrination.

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Everyone starts their life with school and how you do not say bad, but without it just anywhere.
I'm not saying you get a great education at school, but it's part of the process.
School is the formation of a person-there he begins to show himself, he shows leadership qualities, so without it just anywhere.

School is meant to lay the foundations so we can learn further things.  If people don't know how to read or do not understand math, they will have a hard time learning anything remotely technical.  But yes, I agree that there are classes that seem to be pointless, especially those that try to go deep on chemistry or biology (I probably had to learn much more biology than I cared for) or such while you are still in school or high school, because if you are inclined to such, you will study such at college anyhow.  And yes, schools fail to teach more day to day stuff such as how to write checks, how loans work, and so on. At least in my case, I had to learn all that on my own.

Over the years I think schools will tend to be less encyclopedic and more about teaching students how to learn to understand things on their own, as knowledge will be so vast that one single person cannot learn it all.  Having said this, schools are the foundation of it all, and one keeps learning new things along and during the entire life.

School is to learn and be able impact knowledge to another person but not to be rich but only to live and average and slavery life and school will never teach you how to be rich but will teach you how to serve with good conduct and behavioural attitude

What My Parents Thinks About School:
-My Secod Home
-Good Teachings For Us to Learn
-For Getting Certificates To Get Good Jobs

What My Friends Thinks About School:
-1st Venue For Gathering
-Crazy Kinds Of Teachings To Learn
-Getting Certificates Makes You Nerd

What Society Thinks About School:
-1st Step For Getting Professional
-Followers To Become Leaders
-Having Certificates Is A Plus But Useles On Work

What I Really Think About School:
-Torture Area For Kids (Especially On Courses: Law Engineering Medicine etc. )
-Stressful Things To Handle Everyday
-A Place To Learn And Feel Miserable.
-Certificates Are Just Meant To Be A Bribe
-An Endless Prejudice and Discrimanations
-No Money No Study (Almost All Of Schools)

School is actually a place where we learn a lot about anything,i think is to enable  us learn the foundational basis of education,which gives us mindful exposure.

A school is a place of instructions! personally, it makes a man restrict is thinking to a certain field or a programmed way of doing what is right in the society so it actually gives separation and set some individual aside think they are better than the rest.

If you look at the origin of school it actually meant to build principles into an individual

And how to teach children at home if parents work in order for you to live, eat on the ground?
Many do not have the opportunity to sit with their children at home and teach them themselves.
That is why school is needed ... and then each goes his own way through life.

Alright, let me tell you the reality. School is a big scheme of BUSINESS. Why? A businessman will build a school to create a highly generating business platform. Product = Knowledge Costumer = students that need a degree. People have the choice not to go to school but lots of people were brainwashed that bachelor degree is a must as an individual. It was too epic that people believed that degree could save them from their current situation. All I can advise is that, find your passion and make it a career. If the degree is really needed for that career unlike sports, then get it.

School is purposely established to educate, and it improves personal lives and helps societies run smoothly.
It also widening business orientation all rounder.
If permitted I will say school should be compulsory   

I don't subscribe really to the whole "brainwashing" theory. I don't believe that's the intention at all, although I do believe that older methods may not be benefiting our youth at all (class formats, etc). I think schooling could really use a shift/change.

Schooling is for basic knowledge, to get a basic education and understand fundamentals. Anything else (more specialized) should be taken w/ further consideration (college, self-learning, etc)

Sketchily, I will analogize the difference between people who are in school and people who are not in school, you can distinguish from the way he talks to you both about insight or in thought maybe you will know the difference. People who school can think critically when he is faced with a problem, while people who do not go to school will think globally about the problems he faces.

School?  What's that?

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School enables you to gain more knowledge.  Whether or not one needs schools depends on each individual.  I generally agree that there a better chance of success when you have at least some type of an education.  If you don’t have an education, your options are limited to what areas of work you can get into. 

It is hard to learn everything yourself without the help with school. There are parent prefer to home schooling their kids, but I think unless you can provide a high standard education yourself and have also enough time to teach  kids different subjects, otherwise it is not good idea to teach kid yourself. A god school system can help people get more knowledge outside their family.

Note necessarily destroying the dreams or let say future, schooling was design for us to have a Standard. But im not saying that Im not pro to those undergrad but insanely successful. We all have our stregth good for them that they found it at early age. For me schools do help people to know what aspect they are good at.

If you have read the book Rich Dad poor dad it expound the idea of your question it might guide you.

Yes with educating the students but improving personal lives should be the job of the parents and outside world of school.

About businesses, school would teach you how to start but experience would orient you to the real world.

The 4 main reasons for school-

Helps one find their major- for going on to college or prep courses
The stress, time management, and the priority making assist in adult life
Helps develop networking and social skills
Helps develop interest for extra curricular activities

This is what I think school is for:

The good:
Increasing knowledge. Knowledge is important. reading books and learning is known to help cognitive levels.
Earning decent job. Only way to land a good job most of the time. Unless you know people up in the ladder, work in family or personal business, or get lucky.

The bad:
College debt. This is a nightmare for some students. Graduating with several thousands in dept and taking years to pay it off. This is only a valid  statement for some countries as in some places education is free.
No job guarantee. Going to university doesn't guarantee you a good job.
Can enslave you. Some people are stuck working 9 to 5 jobs and only have the weekends to enjoy.

In my opinion, i would go with the ladder as I love learning and reading books.  C++ developer with 15+ years. When I went to university it was a breeze thanks to my self-taught skills.  He would get me to help the other students.

Well everyone can argue for and against.

In everything there are always positive and negative things, that is the most important. We will never be able to do what we always want. And school will show us and learn us the basic things in life and let us see stuff that we would not see or would not be able to recognize. Also the social aspect of our life. Either way if you would not be in school where would you be instead?

I can understand that school does not provide everything and some of the system is flawed. But we should not see everything so negative but instead try to improve.

 ??? If you no went to skool then mom say I never learn talk right and I never work good for peopel pay me bad no money sad and I will feel bad I won't talk right world looks away from me only fit with loosers who also sad then thing get bad and worse loose teeth but no money to fix never had my brain worked out proper so my mom says every day that il never move out never find a good girld too luv and Im really sad cause I could had fiture if worked, my brainbrain and saw mind get smartr wen yung ???

Well school have several usefulness whether in a direct form or indirect, and school is beyond this mere 1+1
It actually help to get better job or even help to get a better career.
It also learn to handle the pressure of Commitment outside school environment.

School is not necessarily and education building or institution. School can be a home, a field or any place where you get knowledge.
You can get schooled in the market in the church and even here on the forum

Great to hear that. The growth of interest in blockchain among young people, I think is a very positive mood. All the same, universities should expand the number of courses in this area, as technologies will develop and the demand for new specialists is very high.

I don’t know how much chance people without technical knowledge have the chance to enter the blockchain industry, like mine. But I agree that the topic is very tempting and extensive. It can be viewed from the side of the subject of development, it is possible as a project management of a new type or in general from the point of view of financial systems for crowdfunding innovation.

The role of school can not be overemphasized. School are set up for the purpose of impacting knowledge, Character molding and assessment.Education in schools cover a wide variety of discipline including the study of crypto and block chain Technology as been offer in some schools. The knowledge of this kind of  Technology will in no time expose grandaunts to the existence of the advantage of block chain technology. The school is for the purpose of educational development.

School is a nice place to socialize. That's the only real benefit of school. For some people (like me) school was a place where I made friends for life. As for the knowledge.. I don't remember anything from school haha  :D which is a pity, of course. I think school should exist, but it should take 3 times less time, because you're right, students have no time to pursue their real dreams. Look at any famous person, artist - most of them either didn't finish school or did it in advance. School can be fun but the system sucks

They say School is our second home but why we can't sleep in class. I thought home is for rest/sleep.

Education is the bedrock of knowledge, this is what is display in the life of the lecturer who are custodians of knowledge for impartation.As a major course in  the school, block chain Technology as subject will enhance growth in cryto currency. The school is a place or an institution of learning to help prepare young minds that will have passion for Technological advancement in areas like Crypto currency and blockchan Technology

I see that they have raised a thread since January 14 of this year, in any case my opinion regarding OP, those who have completed our university degree, it is very normal that many times we felt that we would not be able to with the race when We were studying it, for multiple reasons, I think it would be enough, some subjects are much more demanding than others, but I was a student and I think I am still a student in the world of Bitcoin, market and technology trading although I studied my engineering and then I became an expert appraiser, but I think that the level of demand of a university level will certainly help you to:

1.-Being able to work under pressure, (Many do not endure, for you it will be normal, because the University kept you under a lot of stress)

2.-Ability to solve problems in record time, not using books, sometimes you may need it, other times only problems are fixed using human knowledge and logic.

3.-The numbers and mathematics are in everything (Get used to it) because even the toothpaste we used previously went through a calculation to develop it.

4.- The University level or system is designed for those who can resist and approve that it is technically possible by evaluating patience, effort and amount of time that you can learn certain subjects.

According to Robert Kiyosaki, the system is corrupt, it teaches you to work for others, failure is punished and it only helps you to think of a job of 8 hours to survive, I think the paradigm to break is that each person is discharged from a University or not, you should take a risk, because there are many opportunities in each situation, very few persons see it, I think that the greatest paradigm to break is to risk without fear of failure and if for some reason not has unsuccessful, learning has been exclusive and It takes great experience, you winned experience that can become in money if you know how to use it.

School is the place where people try learn an abundant amount of knowledge in 8 hours. The reason why many people do this is to not get behind in the rat race, we are under the impression that in order to get a good paying job we need to graduate. Education right now is costly and all things they teach there are not use in the real world. So in the end after you graduate, you wonder what am i supposed to do ?

school is not so bad after all we need to know basics , like we need to at least 1 2 3 and addition and subtraction and know how to read and write and have general knowledge , if we have any talent we can pursue after school too

School is a traditional lie.

Something which isn't backed up by science. More like religion. Forced upon as something necessary.

Well, parents of all kids, your kids are painting your walls, breaking your watches, creating a mess with their creativity? Let's put all of them for most of the day time under a building in a room for hours by feeding them history of how the king died or how many queens he fucked and what are the names of the king's sons and whom did they fuck and have grandsons! And how would we make them learn these shits without getting a reaction? By promising them a very bright future if they mug up these shits.

You know why schools and all these shits never improve? Because the people who complete school, even knowing how useless it is, just move on thinking that their time is over so why to bother saving others?!

Well, if there comes a time when babies are sent to school, then surely within a generation or two, parents will start to believe that babies can't learn to walk without going to school ;) that's how it started and that's how it's all happening.

School is the best place to make slaves for the future generation millionaires.Where they only teach we have to study well and get a good job but we cannot live better life if we work for someone throughout our life.We also knows that most of the current millionaires even didn't have a degree so it is a proof that we all are lied in school life.

It's not all bad though. I agree on some points and that it somehow restrains free thinking among children, but a lot of things that are essential for their preferred careers are learned or starts with education on schools. The confinement in classrooms and teaching kids to think the same is, for me, an outdated style of teaching. Lots of unneeded information are being forced into childrens minds.

I see your point and I also think that school is a lie but we couldn't deny that it would also help us in the future.
We know that we need job to live or to save money to start our own business and there are some teacher's who give's a good life advice.
So it isn't all bad we just neee to learn from it and on our own we also need to work hard in order to be successful.

All they were teaching in the classes is how to be like a sheep,yes this could be the best place but they are teaching the most things wrong so if we thing schools are the best place to get knowledge then its wrong.

Maybe schools aren't the best place to get knowledge and getting trained by private tutors is more successful way to obtain education. Although, schools are not only about knowledge, but about social engagement, people skills, and team work too. Those skills are required in modern life no less than knowledge.

It's a place where you learn to write, read, do math, hang out with friends, be alone, fall in love, make fun of other kids, get bullied, skip classes, fail, or succeed. It's a controlled environment where you prepare yourself for life and you are relatively "safe" while you explore yourself.

I think that any school mainly plays rather a bad role in the life of most of the children. We can talk about brainwashing, wasting of time, destroying of personality, the upbringing of slaves, etc. A few of the positive sides that I can think of are discipline, skills of communication, preparation for adult life. The biggest problem is that schools cannot keep up with the modern world. As someone once said: "Kids of the 21st century are taught by teachers of the 20th century with methods from the 19th century". That's the root of all problems in this sphere.      

So you're unhappy with what they taught you, but was there an alternative? School, especially primary school, is very important. Without it people would be unable to function in the modern world. We need to know how to write, count, some basics of foreign languages.
We have different schools and different teachers so it's hard to put them all in one basket and say that school is good or bad, but in general it's needed.

Yup, imagine that there has no school so how do people and how do the world progress as fast as it can? How the human creature ideas and invention from their sacrifices they will become notice and respect? By being student, it is too hard to suffer from hardness but always think that the school would prepare us for our future. Remember that we will suffer the most when we think that the school is just like a hell.

School is only teaching you a basic learnings that can relate to your future like works. They didn't teach directly how to loan or buy something but they teach how you use your mind and critic something. Right now school is the base how you will see yourself, if you are well educated, you must probably become successful and you can gain a lot of respect and if not, you must hard work a lot and have money to earn the respect.

School is beneficial from the point that you get free knowledge.
However, school is designer to create worker and not entrepreneurs, that the biggest negative point from my point of view. Get the max of it but don't rely your life from the fact if you join college or not.

First of all, the school should be considered in terms of the adaptation of the child to society. Next comes some basic knowledge. Although the school has not been keeping pace with the Internet for a long time, especially with the advent of papersbattle (https://papersbattle.com/best-essay-writing-services/) with reviews of best essay writing services. Almost every student can find an answer right now on the Internet or even order a task. But I don’t think that society is now ready to completely switch to another learning system

School is the  second place  for an individual to acquire knowledge in relevant area of study in life. The first been the parental or guidance school, for the purpose of training a child the way to follow morally, The school is the place of educational attainment as a result of studying for the purpose of acquiring Training Certification  endorsing acquired Knowledge.

by birth we will not know anything we need to learn something basics at least to survive in this world schools are not bad , some may have failed several times many have became professional from going to school and colleges   

Maybe you are right that we cant mostly used those mathematical equation in real life. Because we dont need to such computation like what we do in math class when buying things.  But without school,  you cant reach anything now.  Maybe before even you didnt finished studying you can get a good life through hard work. But now, without graduating any degree you are useless.  It will be very hard for you to find a job without a degree.  School is where we learn things that somehow can help us to achieve things that we want in ourlives. 

I have learned a lot with regards to your opinions about the school system. I was surprised that some of the notable members here gave their time replying on this thread. Unfortunately, I don't have any smerits to send to show my appreciation for the great opinions of low-rank members.

I am now at the tertiary level of education and I feel the need to learn as much as I can inside and outside of the university. I realized that learning is not just a thing inside the school vicinity but rather on the outside too  :D

I think this thread can be locked now by amoderator. I forgot to self moderate the topic.