In the essay “Down with school” author reveals, how schools aren’t the ideal centres for learning. Most learning happens without being taught by a teacher in a school.
Some children find a few things in school stimulating but the unjustified pressure on academic subjects and continuous exams outshines it. School mainly focuses on traditional academic subjects, which favours only a minority of students who desire to join a university and continue learning the academic subjects. Where else, majority of student’s interests and talent aren’t fulfilled .However, from the perspective of society , it provides a certain kind of social order.
Schools can also be an obstruction to learning . The pressure of exams , environment of the classroom