Does School Prepare Us For Life?

I am a student, and it could be said that school is my life. I spent about nine hours a day at school at weekdays and sometimes my weekend is also spent at school. Not to mention the task I was assigned that could take much of my spare time, and of course studying for exams is never an easy task. Students are demanded to study lots of subjects and to be a good student, one should master all of the subjects. While most of student’s time is spent on school, those theoretical subjects they learned don’t practically help them to prepare for life.

With lots of time spent on irrelevant subjects and from doing their ‘job’ as a student, students are left with so little time and it left them feeling tired and disabling them from doing what they really want to do. In turn, students are unable to develop personal and soft skill which is vital to survive in life. Moreover, school generalizes its students. Every each one of the students has different characteristic and destination in mind, so it would be unfair to force all of them to study compulsory subjects that might have nothing to do with their purpose. They would only waste their time with unnecessary subjects when they could have spent that time on developing themselves. For example, a student with interest of being a musician, why would he need to study biology? It doesn’t make sense, however it would be okay if he chooses to out of curiousity.

School is about strengthening the foundation of knowledge, so it would be good for those who already has good life skill. School doesn’t teach students to identify their interest and talent. School doesn’t teach students how to interact with people around them. School doesn’t teach students how to have a good ethics and moral, so that students would be able to stand for their principle and to fight for what they believe in. I believe without being able to master those skills, any knowledge wouldn’t be able to be put on good use. However for those who already master that, those skills would be a tool and that knowledge would be the ingredients to succeed. They certainly would advance more than their peers, even if their exam score might not show that.

Moreover, some people could earn knowledge outside school and be good at life. Many dropouts are able to build their success from scratch. By dropping out, it doesn’t mean they stop learning. They are curious, and they are able to learn from all around him by himself. They are able to filter the knowledge of what they really need and what they don’t. With good life skills, they could utilize those knowledge to do what they really want to do and succeed at it. School doesn’t guarantee any of us success, it only depends on the person and therefore, the personal skill they possess.

School is still important because it teaches us the foundation of knowledge, however it should be emphasized that it requires more than knowledge to survive. For example, if a student wants to be a doctor, it is necessary that he studies biology. But, without the interpersonal skill to interact with his patient, he wouldn’t be a good and accommodating doctor. The patient wouldn’t come to him and he wouldn’t earn the value of being a doctor. Those skills couldn’t be learned by memorizing, and it has to be practiced since one is young until it turns into a habit. That is why I think school has to focus more on developing student’s skill rather than cramming their brain with too many subjects and exams at once.

Argumentative essay on education inspired by @Sulibreezy video on youtube; I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-eVF_G_p-Y)

Definition

Brother/Sister

When the word brother or sister is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind of most people is the person they are related by blood; the person who was born from the same mother and father. The only thing that differs them is the gender—brother for male and sister for female. But then, the definition of brother and sister extended. Being born from only one same parent also makes people sibling, even though many calls it ‘half-sibling’. Those definitions restrict sibling to a mere relation of blood. It says nothing about the sentimental bond that come along with it. A sibling is more than that person who just happen to have similar physical genetics. Instead, sibling is about the bond that allows a person to be so comfortable with another person that they could share their life with—without romance attached. This role requires the people involved to stick with each other through thick and thin, as a family should be. Therefore, sibling could also be about the relationship that allows people to be comfortable with each other as a family should be.

People born in the same family should have had that relationship. That relationship could be nurtured from the time they grew up together into adulthood and any hardship they go through together. They grow up learning about themselves and learning to know each other as well. The love and the responsibility towards each other would grow and that is essentially what sibling is. This is not to say siblinghood in reality always happen that way. Instead, sometimes siblings related by blood do not get along at all. It could happen because of many factors; divorced parents which caused them to grow in separate homes, extreme sibling rivalry, deep hidden spite because a problem that happened in their past, fighting over inheritance, or they just cannot get along with each other. By being in bad terms with their own biological siblings, many people could be missing out something that could have been priceless.

 However, some people could be siblings without even having a hair with the same DNA. The only son in a family could have earned a sibling—he could still experience that relationship with someone. The people meeting in the train for example, in one moment they could have been strangers, but only with a few words and stories they could have developed a relationship similar to what typical siblings have. A brotherhood or sisterhood could be a community in which contains people who acknowledge each other as family even without slightest blood relation. They feel the belonging and their relationship is not built based on any agendas like an organization is. To have many bonds like those is when one could feel truly home wherever they go.

Brothers and sisters are not just people who are related by blood, but rather it could also be two people who feel comfortable with each other. Siblings stick with each other through thick and thin. That priceless bond is not easy to be forged and should be cherished.