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.
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