THE REAL MEANING OF SCHOOL

Issue of school in regards to its meaning is one of the modern topic amongst educationists. While school is described in a layman term just as a place of learning; it is professionally described as an organized environment for formal education – which means education that follows certain processes. And the features of school, as it is being often mentioned, include: school authority and staff, classrooms, laboratories and libraries, textbooks and lesson notes, students, tables and chairs, various buildings and offices, ink or chalk boards and other materials of instruction.

But school, in the real sense, is more than all that have been mentioned as the major features; my description of school is simply a place of getting additional knowledge to one's own natural knowledge. Therefore, the real features of a school is everything and anything that contributes to the growth of one's knowledge, causes the expansion of one's mind, increases one's intelligence quotient, reshapes and redirects one's thoughts and thinking, and changes one's mindset and mentality from one direction to another.

The features that can make such impacts as mentioned above, consequently, include: your friends and association, the attitudes and characters of teachers, the things that often stimulate your thinking and imagination, part of the school one often goes to, the games and plays one's often participate in, the music one often listen to, one's beliefs, mindset, ideas and principles.

The above features may be termed secondary features of a school, but they are more important than those primary features; this is because they have more influence on the primary ones and students themselves. The effectiveness of the primary features is largely dependent on the right influence the secondary features have on a student. That is, if secondary features which often interact directly with students' conscious and subconscious state of minds, have positive impacts on the students, the students will be positive towards their studies. But if the secondary features have negative impacts the students will be negative towards their studies.

Therefore, it is expected of any student to be mindful of kinds of student they will keep as their friends, the kind of groups or school clubs they will join, watch their teachers closely and learn good characters from them, be mindful the kind of games and plays they will get involved, the kind of movies they watch and music they listen to.

School broadens imagination, stimulates thinking, influences characters, expands views, directs goals, guides emotions and determines future.

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