School, Do You 'need' It?

[kev2310 0]

Ok, now why do we actually need school, i can understand it gives you a wide range of opportunities and a basis of rules and guidlines, but surely if you spent the time you are at school, specialising on one thing, you would become amazing at that, and that could earn your career. also you don't need schooling to get far or rich. so yeah what do you think????

[t3jem 0]

Well actually I beleive you are wrong on both points you made. The first one, that people would specialize on one thing and become very good at it. I believe, just like they did long, long ago, that some people may search to specialize in a feild; however, most will not and you will end up with a population that will follow any leader that can speak. As for the second, that school doesn't get you far/money. If you are very, very, lucky, then you may be able to get a decent wage with no education; however, no one will hire you without any education, most jobs now won't hire you unless you've graduated high school. And if you go through colledge, get a doctorat, you'll be making tons of money as there aren't many highly educated people out there. So all in all, public education is a very good thing.

[Tetraca 0]

If we learned only one skillset, there are several problems:1. The general population will be ill-equipped to swap careers should it be needed.2. The general population will be inherently unintelligent, since reading and math not required for all careers. That is not a world I would want to live in.3. The general population will not be able to handle a common task such as calculating taxes because they have not learned that skill.4. The general population will be ill-equipped to persuit hapiness. People these days are not satisfied at staying at a single career for long periods of time.I had another one, but I do not remember the counterpoint.

[Laurie 0]

There are many different reasons for schooling. There is the collecting of specific information, the learning of how to gain information and compile it and getting an 'education'. There is also the social aspect of communicating with other people, learning to work together and contributing to group activities. And don't forget the issue of personal improvement. You can try new skills, learn new things and become better at the things you do. Achieving a degree or certificate of completion will prove that you are able to complete a set objective in a timely manner. Having 'schooling' can be a way of increasing your chances of getting and keeping a job or activity that you can enjoy. There are many options of types of 'schooling'. There is standard classroom learning, correspondence courses and online learning as well as other forms of education. I was able to achieve my Bachelors of Business from AIU Online. Because it was online it didn't have the classroom environment of people in physical contact but there was interaction over the internet. I went to school to prove to myself that I could complete what was necessary to earn a degree. And I did it. What schools have you completed and why?

[seargentpepper7 0]

I'm in highschool as of now and personally hate it but I do understand that it is important. School helps you to think in different ways which, the matter what your planning on going into, will benefit you further in life. I learn stuff everyday that I know I will never use again but it teachs you to think in this different way. Algebra 2 seems like the most pointless class ever because when am I going to need to know how to simplify the square root of (7x^2+6z) times the square root of another thing that looks like that!? The teacher says stuff about how if were going to go into aricitectual design it will befit us but I don't plan on anything like that.The real question about the education is how the tests we take at the end of the year that are for the government to figure out if your learning anything. The entire year you have to base all the classes on preparing the kids for the test which means the teachers have to put off all of there other work inorder to make sure the kids do well on the tests or the school gets less funding the next year.

[Laurie 0]

I actually use algebra. Several times I have found myself with a word problem that uses x, y and z in formulas to determine the values of the variables. A simple example is if you have 14 apples and it takes 3 apples to make a pie, how many pies can you make? Number of pies = x, apples available = 14, apples per pie = 3 (those are the values of the variables) Now to make the equation. You want to know how many pies. That would be x. Divide the number of apples available by the number of apples per pie. 14 / 3. So x = 14 / 3 or approx. 4.7 pies. Since it is hard to make a .7th of a pie, the answer of how many pies you could make using 14 apples would be 4. Seems simple and most people wouldn't realize it is algebra but it is. I would love to see some more complex examples of algebra. Make sure that they are understandable and the answers can be proofed by rearranging the equation and the variables. Such as if you want to make 4 pies, how many apples will it take? Number of apples needed = x, number of pies = 4, number of apples per pie = 3. What would the equation be? How many apples would you need?

[dundun2007 0]

its funny because i cant see how someone could think that you dont need school. How do you think the millions of jobs are filled that run our economy and everyday lives. If there was no school people wouldnt beable to specialize in a certain career and people wouldnt know the first think about...well anything.

[Smack 0]

We need school for many reasons. One is it teaches us the basics of society and how it works. Without it we would not be assimilated to that society and it would be like walking into a new world when you enter 'the real world.' School also teaches us the basics to learn - ABC's, 123's, etc. Without them we couldn't learn anything. And you say if we were to spend our time learning one thing - we would all be pretty useless I'd think. What would be any good if we could build an object but not know how to fix a smaller object in it that breaks? And school brings you a social life, if you weren't in school when you were 10 who would you meet? Family and friends of the family and those you live around - thats it. You wouldn't meet the poor family from across town or that rich family from 'the hills.' School introduces you to so many types of people - it's great! School is very important in a culture such as ours. Without it we would be like any other third world country. Those who were educated would run everything leaving us uneducated masses to live in our own waste. Those who were educated would run the country and enforce their rule down on us without any rebellion because we didn't learn the U.S. history back in gradeschool.

[Zlash 0]

Im in junior high and I would say yes: We do need school, but not because we wont get important knowledge if we don't go to school, but because the world society has made it so that it is required to get an education if we want a good job as an adult. We go to school for knowledge and that is excactly what made school. School didnt exist thousands of years ago when people were dum "kebabs" who didn't know and understand stuff. We could say that technology and knowledge have made life more simple, but that may be only half the thruth. As the knowledge grows, technology gets more advanced. School exist for learning and it also makes life difficult. As knowledge leads too technology and it also leads to school which leads to difficulty anddespair, we could say that: Knowledge=Waste of time. It sounds like *beep*, but that is what school has done to my brain.

[seez 0]

Everybody needs school! It's how life works. Everyone should go to school, otherwise our country will be filled with unknowing and uneducated slobs and hobos, and people with no place in society. America will have no future. You 'need' school, to answer your question, and don't even think about quitting. You need a good job, a good place in life. You need to be somebody, so school is good!

[hippiman 0]

The main reason we need school is because most parents don't have the time to teach us everything about everything. It teaches you what you need to know about how to get on in life. If school wasn't required, the majority of Americans would be more than twice as dumb as they are now, because there are a lot of parents and kids that don't really care about education. If everyone already had a career planned for them, they wouldn't need to go to school, they could be taught by someone that already has that job; but the one of the main points of America is to be able to make your own decisions. They teach you general stuff that could be used in any job, or almost anything in life for that matter, and by the time you're out of the required part of it, you know enough to make your own decisions and hopefully start making a lot of money(the other main point of being American).It's a lot easier to get jobs with an education because people know you have some experience. If you haven't gone through school, you don't have anything to prove what you know, so you won't get hired anywhere(unless it's your own business, or they know you, or have heard of you).The government is only trying to help(hopefully).

[Android 0]

^ Alot of crap right, especially the jobs part.Yeah, i think you need school. For the education, social life, and of course a nice time waster.For education, it gives a nice sense of knowledge for you and can help in careers and in jobs in life, which is why i don't wanna drop out in high school. Social life is pretty self explanatory, you can talk to friends, associate with teachers and stuff, which is good, cuz being a loner isn't very fun. And time wasting since you don't really want to be on your butt all the time, and so when you do, days go by faster, and you get the 2 above.

[cangor 0]

Hey, everything hippiman is saying is true.Now, look, we get a lot of school things here in the vent, and we've pretty much established through them all that, hey, some people like school, some don't, whatev. But school is important. It's really tiring to see another topic on this matter, and I'm not going to copy down one of my previous posts on the matter or anything, but, among other things, school is like daycare, school is a place to hang around with friends, and you can probably learn something at school. And if you don't care about getting kicked out you can have some pretty evil fun as well.

[galexcd 0]

Nope. Thats my answer. After maybe my sophomore year in HS i realized that thats about all I need for like basic knowledge, lemmy go out and study my major now. But no. You have to stay in the schoool for two more ****ing years learning random stuff about stupid poets and history I dont even care about.... let me just learn phisics and continue my carrier as a computer science major...

[kasm 0]

Ok, now why do we actually need school, i can understand it gives you a wide range of opportunities and a basis of rules and guidlines, but surely if you spent the time you are at school, specialising on one thing, you would become amazing at that, and that could earn your career. also you don't need schooling to get far or rich. so yeah what do you think????

1. Which stage of your age you speaking about?.

- If you under 15 where your parents will leave you if there are no school. Parents with Kids under the age of the school has this problem and fighting to find place to their kids in the kindergartens and still have problem how to pick up them if they are still working in time of closing the kindergartens.

- Even people with kids in schools age suffering problem in the holiday times.

- If you over 16 years then you can leave school and start work. But you will find it is dificult to compete for even primary jobs since others has better qualification. Even for very unskill jobs there is nowday courses and training.

 

2. Then how you decide which one skill without knowning what all options.

 

3. School is the infrastructure of the life. It teaches you you the basic of life in different directions. This including things may and may not meet them but who knows what you will face in life. When I was teaching Math to Engineering students they were questioning why all these stuff. You can not predict what you will need. We develop your research and basic skill to manipulate the future problem You could develop you own or add another skill by building on these basic elementary bases.

 

4. School may cover things your parents can not give and many new technology and invention even your teachers didn't know previously.

 

5- School learn you the history and the geography of your country and the other parts of the world. It teach your right and obligation in the soociety.

 

6. School develop the logical thinking

 

7. School learn you the method and steps solve problems.and let you practice them in virtual cases.

 

8. School helps you to speak your native language effectively [not the street language] , the crammer and idioms. How to enjoy reading literature.. How to write effectively.

 

9. School learn you other languages and practice it.Do you see many expensive school to learn you another language. If it is easy to gain that then why these expensive schools.

 

10. Schools develop the research skills through answering questions, solving problem , design projects and prepare assignments.

 

11. In school practice different type of sport, music and art. Also you gain the social life with others.

 

12. In the past even the royal families were concerning to teach their kids all the arts, languages and philosophy. They don't say why they will need them Brings teacher to the balances and allow teachers to discipline their kids. Now-day they send them to the normal school to be in natural atmosphere.