School Is Bad For Children Case Study

The scarcity of education opportunities forces people into a competition to secure a place at school. In a story, a woman who is willing to scarify her life so that her son have an opportunity to get a better life.” The night before opening the registration, thousands of people lied outside the gate hoping to be first in line to get one of those positions. When the gate was opened, there was a stampede leading 20 injured people and a woman died. She was a mother who gave her life to try to open her son the world of opportunities”. Admittedly, it is educational system to blame for remaining a lot of limitations which establish the obstacles against students to come to school. However, thinking more deeply , this situation arouses a question …show more content…
In “school is bad for children” John Holt (1969) claims from his experience that “children are often the best teachers of other children”. What is more important, we know that when a fifth or sixth-grader who has been having trouble with reading starts helping a first grader, his own readings sharply improves. Reasonably, friends are people whose perspectives usually have something in common. Hence, instead of interacting with their parents or teachers who are senior citizen they have chance to be team-player with their partner and learn from them. Despite the fact that their partner may be disqualify, they still can learn from other errors and mistakes. Besides, school also constructs a competitive environment among students to be a better student. If children are placed in an environment with no competition, no evaluation and motivation, they can easily feel satisfied with their results and no progress is …show more content…
In short, he comes to feel that learning is a passive process that someone else does to you instead of something you do for yourself”. Admittedly, the instruction of teachers make student’s acknowledge process become submissive. However, teacher’s escort is provided for orienting students towards better life’s understanding together with developing lateral thinking to set the solid background for their future career. In Nicholas Gage’s story about an inspirational teacher who brings a grim milestone to his life, he said “she was the one who directed my grief and pain into writing, and if it were not for her, I wouldn’t have become an investigate reporter and foreign correspondent, recorded the story of my mother’s life and death in Eleni and now my father’s story in A Place for Us. She was the catalyst that sent me onto journalism and indirectly caused all the good things that came after”. Obviously, from a refugee who used to be considered as mentally disability with full of despondency becomes a successful man, the teacher’s contribution can’t be underestimated. If it hadn’t been Miss Hurd who encouraged and inspired Nicholas Gage, he would have still be a (vô dụng) man. If it hadn’t been school where he was nurtured carefully, he might have been a worker exploited his young and strength. This