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What is the Main Function Schools Perform?
Studying at school is remarkable in several ways. For a lot of people a school becomes the first place where they get basics of education and, what is very much important, schools provide children with socialization. Actually, a child spends a lot of time at school, receiving not only knowledge but communication options as well. Indeed, nowadays schools perform social role to a very large extent and this social function is gradually taking the first place, putting educational function to the second place. However, the first primary goal of school education is teaching, meaning, giving knowledge. What does a student get at school? How can it be used in the future? What disciplines are most important for individual development? The author analyzes these questions and gives some ideas on the discussed problem.
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