Purpose of School

Most times I sit and I wonder the purpose of school. After going through history both by learning and stories; I realised that school was not relevant neither was it important. Going back in the days when our ancestors were scavengers and they ate whatever they see edible; be it good or bad so far it could fill the hunger crying out in them.

It was due to their search for food that made them begin to till the ground in order to find out if there was anything profitable in it. After a while; out of curiosity they decided to cut part of the food and replant it to see if it will grow again; and that was how farming was born.

It was born out of innovation and ideas, out of risk taking, out of disappointment sometimes and loss of resources. All this became their experience and knowledge in which they got and shared to their younger ones through stories. When their younger ones were come of age; they would learn through their parent, who would take them along when they were going to work and so gradually; division and specialisation of skill in labour came to be.

All this process and sequence in life was what gave birth to education and knowledge. I would define education in my own word as the process of teaching people what you know due to the experience you have had in your journey through life while knowledge is the understanding gotten from education and also trying to create your own experiences through innovation and ideas, risk taking, disappointment and sometimes loss of resources.

I see school as a building owned by education broken into different section in order to uphold division and specialisation of skill in labour. I see school as a training ground with so many commandants heading different section who are there for only one purpose; to inflict memories of pain and laughter, to strip you naked of things you got as a gift and make you work to get things you can proudly call your own.

I see school as a place where you mind your own business but not act as an island, a place where you get education for you and not because you want to join the family business. I see school as a place for you to be broken into pieces and make you feel abandoned so that you will learn to be independent.

I see school as a prison made to discipline you so as to present you back to life as a matured man. I see school as a place to present you with tough challenges of life and leave you to solve it by consulting the inner man in you called your mind.

I don’t see school as a place of competition nor a place that cares about your degree neither does it care about the grade you leave it but what it cares about is how you can bring solution to problems; how you can teach people to task their mind and how you can not only meet the demands of people but learn to serve them in humility; it also teaches you to be independent even if you don’t work for anyone and in quote “learn to be relevant in life”.