The School You Go To: Why It Matters

Formal education is something everyone needs, and in the bid to achieve that, we go to school to get this type of education. It involves processes; from elementary to secondary and higher institutions of learning. All in a bid to get educated and have the needed knowledge for life. A trajectory on this subject questions the result and outcome from the kind or type of schools we go to, asking if indeed the school one goes to matters so much.

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Beyond having access to school and education from that school, there's a role that the kind of school one goes to plays. Before jumping into that, I'll say that even for the basic subject of education that schools are meant for, where you go to natters a lot, and this can be seen in the outcome. Some of us have been privileged to go to wonderful schools from elementary to higher institution level. For some, it's to a point or at a point, not all through.

The difference is there most times, especially as applied to the lower levels of education, like the elementary which is meant to build the educational foundation and the secondary level, meant to open the child and student to complex subjects and topics that can have a bearing on their future. In my country, you don't normally expect that a child in a public school at these aforementioned levels will be better off than the one who's at a private school.

Therefore, the school you go to matters. Even in the case of higher institutions, there are distinctions in them. Though most are public institutions, the standards are different, and so the outcome, in most cases. And this is where it takes me beyond just the educational reward defining why the school you go to matters. I look beyond that, into the social spectrum and it gives more reason why the school one goes to matters.

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When I discuss things pertaining to school, I mostly never fail to mention that the school as an institution of learning goes beyond that, but it's a social hub as well which connects different kinds of people, of different status and abilities. It's also where we learn beyond books, but other important things, for those who care to. It's in this light that I say the school one goes to can help build them a future through a social network they might not have imagined.

I was told the story of a man who made an effort to send his son to a certain school that normally was beyond his ability, so that beyond the quality education there, the boy would have a diverse and quality social network as well. And it did work out. This isn't a call for all parents to take this route as not all would be able to. Also, the kind of school one goes to doesn't guarantee these outcomes if the good opportunity isn't utilised.

Sometimes, the mention of the school one went to becomes an advantage. If we say that what is learned in some schools can be learned anywhere, it leaves the big concern of why we have different standards and outcome different. There's a deficit issue with education in some schools, and I believe that if people have the means, all would take their children to the best. The school you go to matters in some way.

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