Do We Really Need School?

Do we really need school?

Parents need schools

First, the school is necessary for parents. It is necessary to work and earn money and children are those who distract them from it. That is why, when there is nobody among relatives who can constantly look after the kids, parents usually give them to schools with great pleasure.

It is amusing that very few people are convinced of need of kindergartens. Kindergartens are often perceived as inevitable evil — "better in a garden, than with the grandmother". However, the school is already considered something sacred, and even if mother does not work, children go to school anyway.

Very often, I notice that some parents send their kids to school as the car in auto repair shop for tuning, so that those children were “pumped over”. Parents like street racers try to boast their children’s achievements with such sample phrases: “My child goes on a gold medal”, “Mine has already been accepted to university” and so on. A child who studies well is a great reason for pride.

State needs schools

The state meets requirements of parents and creates conditions for daily upkeeping of children. Today is the 21st century and women have a right and an opportunity to work which was challenging to do a couple centuries ago. From the point of view of the state, women have to work and the government tries to ensure women that schools are a great advantage for them. That is why, the state tries to provide a patriotic education for children.

What about children?

As you understand, it is not pleasant to children to understand that they are sent to schools to stay out of the way. Therefore, children usually are not told the truth, and parents instead feed them with excuses. And many children, as well as adults, are convinced that they are forced to study at school for their own benefit.

Usually, when they talk about for benefits schools carry, they give such statements:

The school gives to children of knowledge. No doubt, this very the first argument that people give. Well of course, how the adult can live, without knowing Newton's Laws? Is the one who does not know is considered to be a dummy then?

As for arithmetic, to show the level of knowledge is also simply. How many people have walked smack, without having managed to calculate real percent on the credit? Percentage and fractions are what children study after they have learned simple arithmetic.

The subjects such as language and mathematics stand out through all school program because they are taught throughout the whole schools program. How little remains in the heads after they “learn” lessons of history, biology, foreign languages.

Yes, no doubt that those who know how a language and mathematics well gained certain knowledge because they aimed to achieve it. And those children who did not want to study, adults could not manage to force them to study and to push knowledge into the head. Therefore, it will be wrong to say that the school gives knowledge. The school gives an opportunity to gain knowledge to those children who want it.

The next argument is that the school teaches students to think systemically. The next prejudice — allegedly the school learns to think systemically and to look independently for knowledge. Certainly, the school teaches nothing of that kind. The school teaches children to learn and remember stupidly everything in a row. Go, silly, and learn chemistry, it is useful, and how are you supposed to live without chemistry then? Adults simply force children to learn everything! It is not a system approach.