Essay 1: Version 2
Every child has once in a life time wondered what the goals of school are and why they have to go to school since they were young? Initially the schools were founded to teach the basics of writing, reading and doing arithmetic to men and provide women with fundamental knowledge about taking care of home. However, nowadays, the society has changed so radically that a great deal of opinions regarding different purposes of education and schooling also arose following that. Some said school impedes children‘s intellectual, emotional and social growths. Essentially, the core purposes of school are to nurture students to become productive community members, leaders, parents, or workers who possess a “vast knowledge skill” and assist learners in sharpening several crucial skills as well as have positive attitudes.
In the journal article “School is bad for children”, the author John Holt (1969) referred that when children came to school, they turn out to be more afraid, less curious and smart. Apparently according to him, school completely ruins children’s psychological development; however, these results were built around author‘s previous sixty years of teaching experiences and not proved by any official statistic or research. Actually, school brings children the foremost academic education which absolutely stimulates students’ inquisitiveness and broadens their horizon of knowledge. This is easily understandable because children are such curious creatures; they are prone to be curious about a variety of things and want to explore all. They are like sponges, they will absorb almost everything that is taught to them by entering a school setting while they are young (Manalese, 2015). Hence, from the very beginning stage of their life, kids are capable of developing the cognition and expanding the grasp thanks to lessons in school. Schooling has direct effects on children’s acquisition of knowledge by teaching them a comprehensive formal system of subjects such as science, society, literature to foreign languages that are the key to a child's entry into higher education or training and also employment.
In terms of other potentials that school brings, many people think that the only target of school is academic potentials. School, in fact, also equips students with necessary competencies for their stable daily lives and successful careers. The first skills are academic skills, from the basics, reading and speaking for example, to the complex ones such as identifying, analyzing and synthetizing. Furthermore, one of the most important things that student extremely need in life is social skills. In the research “Social skills and school” of Candy Lawson, she mentioned: “Children are born with innate social competencies just as they are born with other innate strengths and weaknesses in abilities such as attention, memory, language and motor skills”. Thus, weakness in social skills can negatively affect a child’s other abilities. The manners to establish and advance children’s social skills are experienced in a favorable environment. It is school. Literally, school environment promotes comfort and self-confidence in children with a view to fostering relationships. In such place, children regularly interact with others as surrounding them are many children their own age with same hobbies and same character who are willing to help them, share the viewpoints and naturally self-develop their interpersonal skills, and then familiarize themselves with community (Hari, 2011).
Last but not least, contrary to Holt’s opinion that school turns children into indifferent students, school shapes their maturity with sufficient competences which would be a useful tool for children in order to responsibly contribute to society. Its first firm point is that most of children in school will enforce general discipline far better than children in homeschool because they are always reminded about that. For instance, every student conforms to regulation every day such as on time at class, no absence without justifiable reason, and no cheating during exam. Gradually, they become good habits and manners which build a good person. Secondly, school supplies children with opportunities to sharpen their mind to be critical. In school, children evaluate numerous pieces of information and then build their self-concept far better than informative sources such as the internet, newspaper or book. In the long run, they will be independent and sensible enough to decide their lives wisely. All studies show that someone who has completed schooling will have not only a more productive life, but a happier one (Thorn, 2016).
In conclusion, besides its first academic responsibility to its students, school molds children’s many vital skills and matured attitude to pave the way for their bright future. School broadens a child’s horizon and let others aid him or her advance into a smart, confident and respectful adult one day. Despite many pessimistic judgments toward school’s role on how it impacts children, within the potentials school carries, school system is strongly believed to never be replaced no matter how society changes.
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