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People attend school for many different reasons. However when one person thinks about “school,” most of the times first thing pops up is the image of studying students in a class. I think the main reason for people going to school is to expand their knowledge.
My Spanish teacher always gives us a test to check ourselves in the beginning of a year. Different from final tests or normal quizzes we usually take in the class, this test doesn’t really include stuffs from what we learn in the class; we take it just to check how much Spanish knowledge we have before we start a year course. Of course students usually don’t do very well on this test. After a whole year, he gives us the same test back that we took in the beginning of the year. It is always really nice to see our expanded knowledge in Spanish and how improved we are through a year course of the class. Our special tests in Spanish clearly show that our main reason for attending school is to expand our knowledge.
Even our school schedules depict the issue at hand. Some people might say that their reason for attending school is to enhance interpersonal relationships. I agree that school really plays a huge role in enhancing one’s social skills, but that is not a school’s main role. If you see a normal high school student’s schedule, about 90% of them are consisted of classes rather than break times or lunch time, in which students mostly gather with their friends and enhance their relationships. In addition, if a student has a test or a quiz, he spends his break time to study for his test. Through a school schedule, one can see how school is more focused on their academic purpose.
Without having a close look on an actual student’s life, it is easy to think people’s main reason for attending school is just to develop their interpersonal relationships. However the examples from my anecdote and school schedule lucidly described that people attend school mainly to develop their academic skills. |