If Schools don't exist.........
@marapplestiffy (2182)
Philippines
January 29, 2011 12:52am CST
what do you think would be the effect of it in our society?
why do you think schools sprung out?
is it because we thirst for knowledge and are naturally curious beings or is it because we wanted a system that creates an organized set of rules and test to divide the people we deem "educated" and "uneducated"?
hmmn, I'm a teacher but sometimes I think that most teachers in universities are forgetting the essence of teaching already, teaching to pass a test or a job interview or conforming the student to the laws of the society is not teaching, it's programming...tsk, tsk, tsk...
sadly most people who go to college don't go there for the sheer reason of learning but to get a degree for a job they think can give lots of money...sigh
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12 responses
@xiaohunmeihua (209)
• China
29 Jan 11
That seems more and more like to be a malpractice in most colleges and universities. Colleges and universities should be places to teach students how to be a responsible and creative person, but they are becoming junior high or senior high...The only thing we can aquire from them is just the knowledge in the text books, and what we are busy doing is to pass exams...Even such students canbe defined as "educated" , what the meaning lies there? Does the society really needs students like bookworms?
@marapplestiffy (2182)
• Philippines
30 Jan 11
good thing that my professors in college never, well maybe except for our Statistics teacher, wanted us to refer only on books...we were encouraged to observe the principles of teaching in real classroom setting and record the effects - and +, and use our own words to define the terminologies of education...
I hope though that all colleges and universities would do the same...
@torchablazed (3218)
• Philippines
29 Jan 11
I think the search for knowing things is innate in us human having the intelligence. Knowledge is something that we earned and somehow we are teachers to the people who wanted to know something. The school is built up for this purpose.
I understand what you are trying to convey though, compared to the old days where people are more craving of the real knowledge and not just the degree per se. Despite of that I still believe in the educational system, although some students failed somehow its real intent and purpose but they will eventually see the results of it if its just passive to them. I salute teachers like you, stay dedicated and you will eventually see what labor of love bought you.
@marapplestiffy (2182)
• Philippines
29 Jan 11
thanks, I love teaching children more for they actually have the passion to learn, pity though that as they grow and learn the demands of our competitive society they forget what is essential in going to school...
@saimrajput (426)
• Pakistan
30 Jan 11
now the schools are running but in old days there were no schools no colleges no universties that time there were scholars also.
i think with out discovering school we colud get knowledge.becouz our first school is our home ant then we sent somewhere to study or get knowledge
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
8 Feb 11
hi,
for me, i think if schools dont exist we will turn back the time that people are idiots and not competitive. and the development of a society will lessen and make it slow. because through schools, we learn a lot and know how live very nice with competitive attitude that leads to well development of a society.
@areshstarfreak (238)
• Philippines
29 Jan 11
In my own point of view, schools are made so that we will be able to understand variuos things in life like how a specific thing works, reason why specific things happen, the culture behind a country. Furthermore, the academe enables one to grow intellectually in terms of the knowledge gained in school, as well as emotionally and socially as one relates with different people.
@marapplestiffy (2182)
• Philippines
30 Jan 11
it is made for that golden goal, yes, but today can you say the same about all the schools?
@celticeagle (168126)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Jan 11
I think it would have a horrible effect on our society if we didn't have organized education in our nation. Lots of uneducated people worse than their are now. Some people go to college as a career in itself. School sprung up because of societies extremes and wanting people to be more sophiticated.
@JackRabbit (71)
• New Zealand
30 Jan 11
Perhaps the immediate effect would cause unrest in society. Long term effects would lead mankind towards another dark age. I would think schools was initially built on the foundation of teaching how people should behave in a society. (eg respecting family values... or maintaining order in society.) Everyone goes to a learning facility with different purposes would all expect some form of satisfying achievement. However there might be environmental or social factors influencing our society which effects different individuals desire to pursue education. Regardless whether a school exist or not... I would like to believe that everyday is a learning experience. Which makes everyone a student when they are eager to learn and anyone a teacher when they wish to share their knowledge.
@mark98 (567)
• China
29 Jan 11
School education is a foundation for the development of national survival.
If there is no school,our civilization will not continue to spread the development of human society would cease.Because young people are the foundation of the State,the school is the foundation for you people.
@Zenrax (2)
• United States
29 Jan 11
Modern schooling has nothing to do with the “search for knowledge” or any of that jazz. It’s the product of an overdeveloped society in which the most basic skills necessary to simply survive take a decade to learn, and anything beyond requires another four or eight or twelve years tacked on for good measure. If schools didn’t exist, we’d eventually be plunged back into a society composed of agrarian and unskilled industrial workers lorded over by a small upper class that can afford a decent education- basically, what the world was like in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There’d be mass famines, because world population is dependent on food supplies inflated by all sorts of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, and fertilizers that we simply wouldn’t have the knowledge base to produce anymore. Getting rid of schools would turn the clock back a hundred fifty years in just about everything.