Why must a child go to school?

Much to my amazement, one of my students wrote to me; “Sir, why are we going to school?” I smiled reading her weighty question. Her question of wanting to know about her purpose of going to school really fascinated me. It was so sensing that it indeed absorbed me deeply. To her response, I instantly wrote her back in a simple sentence; “the purpose of you going to school is not to prepare you for job but to mould you to become a better human being”. If every young learner has such kind of thinking, we would never fail in building them as the productive citizen. So, I am sharing my thoughts on what it is to me the purpose of children going to school.

School is the learning temple. The classroom is the learning temple. As soon as you enter into the school gate, you have entered into the soul of learning temple which is full of enlightening experiences. School is the place where you discover the treasures of knowledge. School is the source of knowledge where you seek to attain self-realization and self-actualization. All in all, it is the finding of purpose of life.

Every moment in school is full of discovery and full of learning new things. School is so learning in nature, so exploring, so transforming, so building, so entertaining and so rewarding. Such are the elemental qualities which makes school a great place. That is the wonder of school, so is the life of young enthusiastic learners. 

The wonder of the human life is made by the wonder of human mind. One of the wonders of human mind is that it keeps on transforming. However, mind can either destroy or build your personalities. If your mind is not taking care of itself, it is so devastating that it can even destroy the whole world. Your mind is an architect of your own self. It can either build you higher up or collapse you down. Here, education is the answer. Education transforms your mind positively.

Education metamorphoses our mind positively to become a better human being with high moral qualities. In school, we bring you from the periphery to the center of learning. Putting you to the center of learning helps in laying your cornerstone or foundation upon which you build your life. To lay bedrocks, school constantly nourishes your brain. And the sources of nourishments are teachers, books, friends and environment. That would construct a mind which ultimately translate productive mind into productive citizen.