an informal survey

[candrabindu]

For homework for one of my education classes, I'm supposed to ask three people their thoughts on the purpose of schools. And so, Dear Reader, I put the question to you: What, in your opinion, is the purpose of school

Comments

[crystalpyramid]

Transmission of culture. 1) Teaching skills/facts/structures/methods, etc. 2) Teaching them how to be reasonably civilized and pass as responsible.

[kid_prufrock]

Band practice.

[coraeis]

Smudging between purpose and definition, but 'worldly exposure in a setting of controlled experience' is what I could put together.