▶ Your Answer : There are a bunch of reasons why people should attend
school. Some people may think effective learning is the most significant aspect
of going to school. However, in my opinion, socializing is much more important
role of school than academic purpose.
First of all, school is the ground of meeting friends. In
Korea, children of age above 8 start to attend school. Since going to
kindergarden is not legally forced, elementary schools are definitely legal,
safe, and authorized place for children to gather and get along with each
other. They learn how to express their opinions, how to listen to the others,
how to play with friends, and even how to fight and make compromises. According
to the survey recently conducted by governmental education department, 90% of
responents said that they met their closest friends at school. People learn to
give help, ask for help and express thanks to the others. Additionally, people
define themselves via comparing themselves to friends. Through lectures,
assignments, and exams, students start to realize what do they like and what
are they good at. At school, they draw future plans by analyzing their
accomplishments, and the accomplishments are largely by comparing his or her
scores to the other students'.
On top of that, teachers teach various things to students.
From teachers, students learn there are rules they should follow such as it's
bad behavior to hit other people and young people should be polite to the
elders. Since school is the small version of the whole society, the rules are
analogous to the laws. People are trained to be acceptable to the society at
school. Morever, teachers also give a huge impact on students. In my case, when
I was in a 2nd grade in elementary school, I was doing typing for helping
teacher since I was good at typing fast and accurately. During work, I
unconciously touched a switch of the computer so the power went off and the
work was all gone. I was so embarassed and afriad of being punished. However,
she said it was okay and pacified me. I was impressed by the generosity and
kindness of my teacher, and I learned how warm heart can affect the other's
minds. On the other hand, there's also a negative example of affecting student
by a teacher. Yoo Young-cheol was a serial murderer. His crimes were notorious
for cruelty and once the whole country was in fear. When he was caught and
being profiled, he confessed that when he was an elementary school student, he
had no money to pay the fee. His teacher was angry at him and speaked out bad
words. He even split into Yoo's mouth, saying this is because he is a trash.
Yoo said at that moment, the devil started to live inside his heart. It's
cannot say enough that teacher's role is important in socializing people.
To sum up, people get socialized by meeting friends and
taught by teachers at school. In this regard, I think socializing is the most
important reason of attending the school. |