School, as a special place where learning and teaching takes place, must meet its own requirements. Many think of the visible things like the system or the facilities, but I have a different view about this. I remember Ghandi of India saying that teaching only how to read and count is not education at all. I strongly agree with his idea.
First of all, school must have good teachers who love to teach and are not discouraged to love their students. I think teachers must have existed before the students, not vice versa. Teachers must be put before anything else. Nowadays people talk of this or that as to school matter, but the most important and decisive factor of a school is its teachers. Without good teachers, a school cannot be good. I think teachers of this age should restore the dignity and privilege of being a teacher. And many of the educational problems, I think, start from the lack of good teachers who know the value of teaching. When teachers have no joy in their teaching, students will get only the boredom of life instead of hope and vision.
Only when the previous requirement is met, school, then, should give more emphasis on 'being a good human' who can respect, love, and interact with others. In this age, many schools and many teachers have lost this inner values, so they just want to deliver just facts called knowledge. In fact, only those who have inner values will be really happy and lead a meaningful and successful life in the end. Inner values, attitudes of life, and manners must be taught to students by the examplary good teachers.
Finally I want to mention happiness related to learning and our life itself. We learn to live and to be happy. We have to survive, but, at the same time, our life must be good enough to make you happy. People should get out of the trap of one-sided education that confines them only in the solatary and malfunctioning knowledge.
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