Y do we kids go 2 school?

Question

if our lives are soooooooooooo short, y do we waste so much of it in school?

Answer 1

Obviously it's not to learn full words and how to spell them.

Answer 2

to make something of your short life so it wont be even shorter

jeez kid get your head on straight wat r u like 9?

Sorry that was rude. I appoligize

Answer 3

but we get to see our freinds, make fun of teachers, pull pranks,and make fools of ourselves. there is some good in there

Answer 4

To get neurosis instead of knowledge

Answer 5

Life is very short indeed but think about this, Education might take a lot of time but without it we might not have all of today's luxuries. You can either use 1/5 of your life learning and have a nice rich life or, spend no time at school and live a primitive life. (hobo)

Answer 6

we go to school to learn. apparently, us kids need to learn common sense. parents always tell us that if we don't go we'll be dumb. some people live life fine without school, but with an educated life, we can get a better job and possibly a better pay. this way life would be better than a person who works at some place for minimum wage.

it's true that our life is short and it seems that we spend most of it at school, but in the long run, life is better with education. you wouldn't want to look like an idiot when someone asks you a simple question would you?

EDIT: what's with the thumbs down?!? school makes you smarter and gives you the opportunity to get a better job cuz you can actually read and write with intelligent vocabulary. people would be more likely to hire you. you guys just don't wanna admit that i'm right. :P

Answer 7

Because your parents don't home educate you. I agree most of it is time wasted, you could learn everything of use that you do in school at home, in a fraction of the time, and then spend the rest of the time learning things that interest you, picking up useful skills and even enjoying life!

Sadly most parents have been brainwashed, by schools, to think that schools are the only way to get an education.

Answer 8

So you can learn how to correctly coordinate your sentences, instead of using single letters to express your thoughts.

Answer 9

Children go to school because their parents haven't chosen to educate them at home.

Answer 10

becuase soceity dosent realize what we learn is school is 90% worrthless.  and they want what they want.  it make you wonder if school is so important why is that the first thing money is deducted from

but to the point.  i think school is a form of brain washing.  dont to drugs, go to college, get a good job,dont have s*x.

Answer 11

So that we can be ready for what life throws at us. Without education it would be hard to get a professional job and make good money. Yes, I hate school too, probably more than you do but I am tuffing it out like you so just deal with it.

Answer 12

I don't. I'm homeschooled, and instead of wasting my time in a classroom doing nothing useful, I spend it in the real world experimentinig, exploring, discovering, and having fun while I do it.

Answer 13

To learn things for basis, in like elementary and middle.

But in highschool its all down to getting a good college to get a good career.

School comes down to=job in future.

In life work is never over but instead of having kids working hours a day instead we put them in school to learn to be prepared for the world after education.

Though ill admit half the school after like 5th grade start teaching things seemingly irrelvent, thats the wonder of college, where you go somewhere you actually enjoy most of what you learn.

Answer 14

You want the truth? We go to school because way back in the late 1700's, just before the industrial revolution was kicking off, British industrialist discovered they needed a compliant, slightly educated work force. So, they started schools to educate orphans (such nice, philanthropic fellows) upon completing school, the children were properly "socialized" to be good little robots er, I mean workers. Long story short, this method was brought to America and today we have government controlled education for the purpose of creating non-thinking conformists, churned out of a factory environment designed expressly to insure the proper social order doesn't get disrupted.

Answer 15

our lives aren't so short. our lives without school would be shoes without laces. it just wouldn't work.

Answer 16

Its to improve society. If we don't know the basis of how our country is founded, then how can we sucessfully vote for what our country stands for. If we don't have knowlege, how can we get a job. How can people be doctors without the knowlege? also, how can you do your job if you don't know how to read?

Answer 17

to pursue my career and get money so i could live....

mommy and daddy told me 2

lol,BUT I HATE SCHOOL

hey read this.......

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, and nobodies perfect, so why practice?

Answer 18

GREAT question! I know school can seem like a waste of time and you know what sometimes it is. Unfortunately in the United States we have compulsory education, so, you have to go to school by law. Besides, being at school can't be any worse than being in jail for breaking the law right? :)

Now, since you seem to have made a distinction between school and education, I suggest you become a self made person. Don't rely on the school to make you an educated person. You can do so much on your own. It's your life. What will you do with it??  It's really up to you. Do you want it to count for something or not?