If not in school, where would you rather be?

 If you are not in school, where would you rather be?”

This is what pops out of my head every time I see school-hatred posts. Alright, let’s say that in another dimension, school is not THAT important, again, where would you rather be?

I want answer for this, because I can’t find one myself. Imagine if you learned everything on your own-from your house, from the streets, from the bar, from a battlefield, or from your friend’s house. Even if this becomes possible, it wouldn’t be as fun or as meaningful as being schooled. Your book of life would lack sufficient characters and it would be bland and boring.

A tad bit of everything you need to be equipped with in life- School gives you exactly that. If you have watched the movie “Colombiana,” there’s a scene wherein the protagonist’s uncle was prodding her to go to school because she didn’t want to. She wanted to be a killer. The uncle who’s almost out of patience then demonstrated something that changed her perspective. (No, I’m not saying it, watch the movie, it stars the smoking-hot Zoe Saldana) Her uncle sealed the lesson by saying “If you want to be a killer, you have to learn the basics, you learn the basics there (pointing at the school)”or something like it. Yeah, bad example I know. HAHAHA. But the point is you have to learn the basics to weather the storms in life. School is the pool of basics. You have to be there.

School is the best place to strive for excellence. You won't have too many a chance to display brilliance from other place compared to when you are in school. It is the best place for let downs too. You would see from a pool of learners that we all have our fair share of that. 

I’ve finished school for almost three years now and I feel that the years I spent there are still not enough. I was not a perfect student (tell you more about this in another post) but I value school because I can’t imagine what kind of person I would’ve turned to without it. Without the knowledge I have acquired I would be deprived of tools in manoeuvring my ship. Without working values, I wouldn’t be able to live amicably with the souls and the zombies of the society.

Without my classmates, I won’t discover half the kind of people that walked the Earth. If I wasn’t in school back then, would the introvert me even have the chance to gain friends? Maybe yes. But I won’t have the chance to build a strong relationship with any.

If you have noticed, up until this point I have still not expounded how important school is. I was just enumerating the snippets of education life. I hope you get the point though, my life as a student was just as rough as yours. I’ve been bullied by my classmates and I’ve been power tripped by some mentors too. Twice, I skipped school because I ran out of money.

Through all this, I will choose school over and over again. A big part of who I am is how school molded me. How about you, where would you rather be?