School plays more important role than the family in shaping one's personality. Discuss.

School is the place where one spends considerable amount of life. It accompanies people from their childhood, up to adult years. Therefore, it strongly influences the development of one's personality. It may be said that the impact of school is much more significant than the family, but this thesis is not clearly obvious.

One point in favour of that statement is that children spend even eight hours a day in school. If we subtract the time spent on sleeping, We realize that they spent more time sitting on a school bench than at home. Thus, the teachers are to take over many responsibilities, beginning with protection and ending on transmitting the knowledge and basic moral values. After a few years, the teacher knows who the pupil is, what social background he comes from and who his parents are.

Secondly, school plays a vital role in the process of socializing. This is the place where pupils meet their peers, make friends and establish relationships which may be very important in future life. The great role of school as an institution is to create conditions and teach children basics of living in a community.

On the other hand, it may be argued that children do not establish close relationships with their teachers. In fact, an average pupil does not- about that - he treats the teacher as a leader but nothing more. In some moments of children's life, the appreciation of friends may be the most important, even more than parents' opinion.

Moreover, a lot of time in school is devoted to preparing for exams and competition for better grades, treatment etc. This is in fact the fault of the educational system, which promotes thoughtless swotting of often completely useless rules than practice in using the knowledge. Consequently, the pupil's school life goes from one test to another - little time is left for pure pedagogy, i.e. modeling one's personality and pointing at fundamental moral principles.

To sum up, it is undoubted that school is an integral part of every human life. However, it is not important than parental education - these two aspects cannot be neither separated nor replaced by each other. Both teachers and parents should agree upon this fact.