What is The Point of School?
Education is one of the tools to improve people’s quality. Education becomes a starting point to measure peoples’ intelligence. Everyone agree that someone who is well-educated might be has a high-prestige and high-status in their community. Getting education means entering schools. Schools should help young people to develop the capacities they will need to thrive better. Actually, what they need (and maybe they want) are: to be confidence to talk to strangers, to try things out, to handle tricky situations, to stand up for them selves, to ask for help, and to think new thoughts.
What Albert Einstein intended at his statement: “Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned at school” is those skills and attitudes. If your schools require you, lesson after lesson, to copy down facts, remember them accurately, and reproduce them when required, those are the skills of note-taking, memorization, and the attitude of unquestioning acceptance that you are practicing.
So, what school is for? Mr. Godin answered that there are a few possibilities to answer the question. School is to create a society that culturally coordinated, to further science and knowledge and pursue information; enhance civilization while giving people the tools to make decision; and the last, to train people to become workers.
