Schools

I am sitting in the school library, waiting for lunch to begin. Sitting here in the library this Wednesday afternoon just got me thinking. What is the meaning of a school? Why do we spend a fortune to attend this institution, and how does it help us?

We have been told from a young age to go to school cause it is essential to get a job and it prepares you for life ahead. But how is sitting in a classroom for hours and spending your childhood away gonna help you in real life?

I know it seems like I am one of those students. Unmotivated, naughty and probably a failure. I am not. I have been an intelligent student for as long as I can remember. But is getting a bunch of answers right really what describes how smart you are?

Or is it something else? Unfortunately, we still need to remember the answer to all these questions.

The reality is that schools nowadays need to prepare kids for life ahead. It is a complete waste of resources to 'educate' children. We don't teach them relevant skills, or we go to the other extreme and burden them with so many extracurriculars that kids can't get sleep.

Teen depression and suicide are on the rise. And a large part of the culprit is school. It claims that safe and secure institutions help train our kids for the future. But it does not.

I always stock the opinion that kids learn best by living life. This means roughing it out in the real world, playing and exploring whatever they want. And by examining, I don't tell school extracurriculars.

The extracurriculars in schools are often monotone or specialise kids in their talents or interests, which harms kids. It puts pressure on kids to be a genius and the overcompetitveness can cause anxiety, feeling stressed or total burnout.

A 14-year-old does not need to think of the future or be mollycoddled. They need to be let free and rough it out, not just sit in classrooms.

I am right; school is essential. But it needs to be a small aspect of a child's life, not a main one. For example, 3-5 hours of class daily in the morning is enough depending on the grade. Schools should end before the afternoon to allow kids to explore and be just kids. Kids need to learn to wake up early, which is a necessary skill.

But honestly, someone needs to reduce the school load as much as possible cause life's way deeper than that, and kids need to rough out in the real world, which does not happen in classrooms.