School is formally organised place where patterned instructions are given. The school is also regarded as social institution in which teaching and learning take place at a specific time and place .There it is composed of educational practitioners(teachers)subjects,pupils/students ,methods ,time and places.
School groom aspects of life for child development .This comprises of cultural enrichment.School also boasts a variety of cultural activities in society such as curriculum aspects for academic attainments and co-curricular activities for child's social development through learning life skills and entertainment. Such are sports,drama,public speaking ,debate ,so that they develop a strong sense of moral conscience and socialisation in general.
Currently traditions and family values are rare to come by .Parents search for school which offer their children this way of life and help to nurture them into parents of tomorrow. So a school should make this environment exist to establish these traditional values.In this modern times a school is formed with the traditions that are now becoming a way of life.School is striving to mould students into a big family ,within this family they guide children to become adults who respect themselves and others.
In this regard the school's function is that of changing and equipping children with necessary attitudes values and skills that will enable them to function appropriately in society.The school educate the young specifically for development for without education definitely the development cannot take place. A society that ignores its children's education is ignoring its future.The human factor is an important element in development whether social ,economic or political.
In the recent past,the school regarded as place for children to grow and prepared for employment in urban industries ,commercial centres and mining areas.Parents accepted this as they take white collar jobs to be offered only by established companies and the government.What children learned at school had no bearing to the needs of the local communities.
The pioneer of progressivism in education John Dewey strongly argues that education should not be preparation of life ,but to be life itself. Also education must be designed to solve social problems not to be a training ground for the rich people to educate employees.
The curriculum should not made the learner subservient ,dependent and alienated from his culture.This type of curriculum served the interests of the rich people to continue exploit the poor educated workers and cause economical recessions for them to create unemployment to continue enjoy the exploitation workers who squeeze for the few jobs available.
The people oriented education is concerned with devising curriculum that provides learning opportunities for intellectual and manpower skills for the children to be responsible for their own future.Such an education should enable children to develop and improve their economic status .It should also enable them to effectively fight poverty ,diseases and ignorance.
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