What is School for?

[WiresAreComing]

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.

[condura150]

Greetings to the world,
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.

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.

[Wete]

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.

[PhoenixEmpire]

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."

[crwth]

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.

[Jet Cash]

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

[FilesFM_Announcements]

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?

[Panko1991]

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.

[FilesFM_Announcements]

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.

[cryptowin1]

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.

[sinchang]

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.
      

[Direwolve735]

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.

[shaunonsite]

To get you ready for your slave career.

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.

[Thebabybillionaire]

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.

[ATMD]

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."

Lol Top quote

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

[BADecker]

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."

Lol Top quote

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.”

[Boys27]

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

[Wolfencloud]

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.

[Lammie]

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

[Chantella]

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.