Is School Bad for Children?

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Human beings, just like animals, are social beings with a brain. This means they are in a position to learn new ideas and concepts. We can not not learn under whatsoever the circumstances. For learning to take place, a change of behaviour is expected. The big question is what do people stand to gain when they go to school? This will form the major part in this paper by critiquing the article that elucidates that schools do more harm to children.
To start with, the opinion I hold about schools is that they are key to learning of new skills and concepts that are hard to acquire without being taught. One thing that should be clear to everyone is the mere fact that people go to school to acquire new skills and knowledge, which would be difficult without such structured way of learning. We should not confuse schooling and learning since learning is a continuous process that ends with death. In the article, the author argues that a child is able to learn difficult concepts without necessarily going to school. The truth is such children do not learn from nothing. They are only able to learn language and other concepts by being taught by their care givers or through experiential learning. By experiential learning it means some skills will be acquired by them trying to do them and in the process, they assign value, either positive or negative from the experience. The author fails to recognize that teaching takes place in many areas. Does it mean children do not learn outside classroom? The fortunately do and this can be through distance learning, internet, radios or even television. In the article by John Holt, the author is against the schools with...