Please Send Your Kids to School
It’s safe, and what’s at stake is far more important than what you may think
Why do we go to school in the first place?
School is not just a place for books and backpacks. Traditional perspectives, such as theories of human capital like to argue the direct impacts of scholastic learnings to economic outcomes and overall growth of a nation’s public health and GDP. In other words, reading, writing, and arithmetic are supposed to lead to more money, more power, and more opportunities.
Across the globe, nations focus on this rhetoric in pursuit to progress from poverty and as a push on productivity. And while most of this sentiment is true, there’s so much more to school and so much more to learn. The true power of schooling is not just in raising a child to learn letters and numbers, but all sorts of manners and behaviors and the many things learned behind the scenes and developed beyond the screens.
Outside the precise curriculum, the school environment presents the chance for many kids to develop needed social skills like speaking in public, how to generate ideas, and cultivate conversations with others. The simple fact that the conventional model of “show and tell” times in school spark human connection, empathy, and understanding…
