Speak about the importance of school in educating the young generation?(public school)?

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Speak about the importance of school in educating the young generation?(public school)?

Answer 1

Do you know where you are?!? LOL!

Do you know what 'home schooling' means? Sometimes I wonder when people post questions like your's on this board rather than one of the school boards.

We're home educated. My family doesn't believe school has any importance to education - not in a positive, helpful or beneficial way anyway.

Personally, the only time I reckon there's a positive, helpful or beneficial aspect to mass schooling is when a child comes from an abusive or dysfunctional home.

Answer 2

As stated above... I would add that there may be times that 'school' might be helpful but not as a full time replacement for parents.  

I have a child who needs some specialized instruction in one subject area.  I think the public school system can be helpful in those sorts of circumstances. (Where a parent has tried several different ways to approach a subject and the child just doesn't 'get' it).  This would be akin to taking a child to a doctor when I can't heal him myself.  I have most of the knowledge I need but in some areas they occasionally NEED someone with specialized training.  That would be the exception and NOT the rule though.

I think public schools can also be useful to single parents who just can't make it work, or those who can't cut it mentally or educationally.  It's a false assumption that parents don't have the 'skills' necessary to teach their children.  All early education can be taught by a reasonably educated parent and high school levels can be a joint effort if it's not the parents strong point (I was terrible at science but my son LOVES it - and my lack of skill is not holding him back because I've given him the tools to learn on his own [reading, researching, communications, etc.]).  

If you ask most education majors you would know that they don't have specialized training in all subject areas.  I think most have to have a 'specialization' but maybe not.  I graduated from college a long time ago so things may have changed.  However, when I was majoring in elementary education I only had to complete my college requirements (i.e. English 101, etc), some broad subjects, child psychology, and student teaching.  

Public school shouldn't be your first choice - it should be a last resort after you've tried everything else.  Too many parents cop-out and just send their children to public school without considering the possible ramifications.

Answer 3

This sounds like a school speech assignment.

Instead of having us do your work for you, you might ask some specific questions that would help you. But as someone else said, this is the homeschooling section. You'll be hard-pressed to get some real help on your topic.

Answer 4

Is this for a school assignment? You wont get much help in the homeschool section, since most of us believe that schooling isn't nearly as important as educating.

Answer 5

Education is indeed important; schooling is not.

A true education can be obtained very easily outside the confines of a brick, and mortar school.

Quotes;

"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing".

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education".

Mark Twain.

"I'm sure the reason such young nitwits are produced in our schools is because they have no contact with anything of any use in everyday life".

Petronius (d. circa 66 CE) The Satyricon.

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education".

Albert Einstein.