why is school so important?
153077
It is a big bad world out there and defective as it is, school will provides people with a few of the tools that will assist them as they play survivor for the rest of their lives. This is particularly important to students in the US as our political and financial empire loses clout.
39610
Because you are too young to be effective in the work place.\nMore than the reading, writing and math, school is the place where you are exposed to other people your age and learn some social skills that you will need later.\nWatching television (including MTV) and playing video games is what turns you into mindless veggies, not school.  How can you be rebels if you don't know what you are rebelling against.\nSomewhere among those in school today will come the doctors, nurses, engineers, chemists and other professionals which will keep your generation alive.  Without them you'd probably be eating Soylent green.
416531
Post-secondary education is important because you learn a lot more than you do in high school.  You go into more depth in the subjects you choose to study.  Without the basics, you can't get further in life.  If you don't get a post-secondary education, chances are you won't have a very good job.  If people didn't go to college, there wouldn't be doctors, engineers...etc.
979228
Reading helps you ALOT. (Never thought I would say that) If you are young and are in school English will seem very easy to you. No matter what you read or how fast you read. It will help build your vocabulary, and memorize things much easier. English is apart of every subjext: science, biology, history, and even math. You need English. Reading will help you along the way to your goals.
341807
1) Because there are better things for us to do in life than learn monotonous subjects in which we have no particular interest.\nIf we could specialize at a younger age, we would be spending time doing what we wanted as opposed to being "well-rounded" people.\n2) Schools these days are focusing more and more on the nagative aspects of student behaviour rather than the positive side of student learning: therefore we are suffering oppression because of the way we dress and act, yet are not rewarded for schievements in education, which is the primary purpose of school anyway.\n3) Peer pressure.
489999
No school is not necessary, one does not need to go to a building to get educated. However a formal education is, so finding teachers to teach at home is a good solution. Besides, an education, schools provide socialization and structure. If one does not attend school, then these needs to be met somewhere else. So, one may not have to attend school, but it's hard to makeup the benefits that a school building provides.
852247
studies in science and mathematics are far more important in society than history and language arts. \n\nscience and mathematics are what makes this world so advanced and technologized. sure history is important, but as the saying goes, history repeats itself over and over again. there will be wars of religion, power, and freedom. its nice to know your roots and culture, but science and mathematics can provide the greatest resolutions to human strife. it can bring cures, vaccines, rockets and nuclear weapons ; )\n\nLangugage is just annoying. i hate grammar, especially english grammar. its retarded, but thats just me. \n\ntake care.
925949
for me school is a great place to learn to discover things you never done before.also school is a learning environment.im a 7th grader student.thanks for asking
241177
good! school is for learning.... it makes you educated 'bout many things....
437440
School is boring because the teachers have to cram all the information in you in a couple of years and they don't know what specific information to give you to prepare you for what you want to be later on in life.  So they give an overview of almost everything! Unfortunately, only a small portion of this knowledge base will catch your interest and will make you want to pursue that field when you graduate.
57382
Yes, i do think its important. but its proabably the hardest topic to memorize since theres so much of it to know.  Geography which is the physical nature of the earth like climate, vegitation, sea masses, and all of their interactin with the human population.  So there for when you see some one on your television talking about the days weather or when you find diseases that can seriously put a hurting to the populaion on the earth like mad cow disease. All of this has to do with geography,  Geography in my opinion is a very important subject.  And the thing is every day of your life involves it.
336873
Sure, school is often a haven for kids who have a difficult home situation. There are a lot of reasons:\n1. School is predictable and offers a routine schedule. So most of the time you know what to expect and can be prepared for it. This may be very different from a chaotic, unpredictable home life.\n\n2. School can provide a place where you have relationships with people who are consistently giving you positive feedback. You can have friends and teachers who care about you and who are interested in you.\n\n3. School work can provide a way for you to excell at something and get positive feedback for it. It can give you a sense of accomplishment that you don't get from your family.\n\n4. School can provide non-academic ways to be a part of something and feel accomplishment, such as athletics or clubs. \n\n5. School can help you see a future for yourself when you don't see a future if you just looked at your own difficult family situation.\n\n6. School can also provide a place to have someone to talk to about your troubles--your teachers, your school counselor or your school psychologist.\n\nThese are just a few ideas about how school can help you get past difficult times at home. Almost everyone has difficult times, but it is friends and people who care about you who help you through it. Encourage your friend to talk to people who can help him.
495537
We go to school, because we are supposed to (and we WANT to learn). When we do little things that we don't want to do, we get bigger responsibilities, people trust us more, and we have a bigger self-esteem. \n\nMaking a habit of doing small things (like going to school)when you don't want to, will eventually help you to do BIGGER things that you DO want to do!\n\nGood luck!
166481
Well for startes it gives you lots of new vocabulary, reading is the key to education, it's a form of silent comunication. It's very important in every society. It's educational as wel. Will help your writng skills as well.\nGood luck and don't stop reading, whatever language it is in.
280802
School is work.\n\nYou have to set aside chunks of time for it, require yourself to perform the tasks, and let nothing get in the way of it.
6266
The answer depends on the philosophy of the teacher. Some contend that schools should be purely academies of a certain body of knowledge -- that is what is covered on standardized tests. Others, myself included, feel that school should teach more than that. A successful school teaches future citizens the skills that will help them be independent, successful workers. Learning how to meet deadlines, working with others in a peaceful manner, conflict resolution, appropriate behavior and dress in a work environment -- all of these are fostered in school and are vital in the working world. School should prepare you for your life experiences.
457695
The only reason to study is to learn, to pass your classes, and to obtain a degree. \n\nThe only reasons to do this include improving your mind, understanding the world, preparing for a job/career, striving to meet goals that you set for yourself, hoping to make the world a better place.\n\nMost students get confused when they ask the question "why study?" as if studying is something that someone "makes" them do. Nobody makes you study; studying is important only as it helps you meet the goals that are important to the individual. \n\nOf course, in general, an educated populace is also a benefit to society and the world as well as to the educated individuals.