Children live in dual world – one made up of family and the other of school. It is in the school that they learn most of the life skills they will need for adulthood and careers. In this dynamic world facing change and adapting to it are unavoidable. It is no longer possible that families alone can prepare their children for future.
Schools give children the safe and secure environment needed to learn the social skills they are going to need in the future. Schools help them learn how to make friends, how to concentrate and experiment, how to obey and command. School helps them learn the basics of their spiritual and moral existence, providing them with opportunities to understand their feelings of awe and wonder when confronted with elements of themselves, nature or the greater universe.
Schools encourage hobbies and games that lay the foundations of understanding the laws of the market, of supply and demand, bargaining, cooperation and competition. Schools shape and mould not only children’s minds – which they do through a formal, broad and balanced curriculum of distinct subjects – but also their personality and character, their spirit and emotions, as well as their bodies...
"The greatest gift we can give our children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."