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School from a Different Viewpoint
In his article “School is Bad for Children”, John Holt discusses the disadvantages of sending children to school and how it might be a bad experience for them, firstly he mentions how school teaches the children that learning is separate from living and that they can’t be trusted to learn on their own, secondly he talks about a new kind of schools where the kids get out of the school buildings and learn more about the world, lastly he shows how school teaches children to be indifferent, and I agree with the previously mentioned points because I’ve experienced them myself during my school experience.

Children spend their first years exploring and learning more about their surroundings, but what school does is it teaches the children that learning is separate from living and they come to school to learn as if living is a completely different thing, and the previous point is true because when we look at students nowadays we see how they take school as if it’s the only place to learn and everything they learn outside the school doesn’t count, second thing is they teach the child that he cannot be trusted to learn and he is no good at it, in the end the child becomes a passive learner, where learning becomes something that someone else does for him instead of something the child does for himself.


A good idea that might be an alternative for school is to get the children out of the school buildings and give them the chance to learn about the world on their own, this idea let the children gain experience on their own, because it causes the children to use the city they live in and it’s people as a learning resource, for example; Students will go to libraries, museums, exhibits and laboratories to learn more about their world and society, and I agree with Holt on this point, because being in school for hours makes the student bored, tired and out-of-focus, but roaming the city from place to place is a very exciting learning experience that actually makes the student curious.

Being a school is like being in a completely different community, but in this community the school forces the students to be similar and to have common goals, this causes the student to think that everything revolves around him, so he lives without paying attention to his surrounding, and by not paying attention he becomes less curious and asks less questions, and this is another reason why I share the same view with Holt, because what makes children different from one another is their unique personalities and clearly school is not doing a good job at this.

Although it’s been around 50 years and things now might be different, but the points mentioned in the article still make sense because the way school works is still the same, so we conclude that school has a lot of disadvantages, and that it kills the curiosity inside the child, thus, the child learns not to ask questions and it forces him to accept his new character, not forget to mention that it makes of him a passive learner and teaches him that being right is all what matters and being wrong is something he should avoid, which is why I agree with Holt, especially that I used to be a student and I know that without school I could’ve been a completely different person.