School should focus on academic success and passing examination. Skill such as cookery, dress making and woodwork should not be taught at school as it it better to learn from friend and family. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

It is believed that educational institutions should only emphasize on academic achievement and passing examinations. Therefore, skills such as dress making, cookery, carpentry are not required to be taught at school as it is more effective to learn these from family and friends. I strongly disagree with this notion because schools are better equipped with facilities to teach these skills and, can also provide more professionals who can easily guide these children.

The primary reason for my disagreement is because school have more effective facilities to learn these skills compared to others. This is because families and friends will generally teach these skills in their own house which does not have the required equipments. However, schools are meant to be a place to fully teach these skills to the students and make them advanced. Therefore, they have organized several features which will assist their learning process. For instance, in many schools, they have organized a separate class for cookery, and have installed equipments such as coffee machine, burner which are more practical for juveniles to master cookery.

Moreover, schools have more professional teachers who can guide children better than their friends or families. Schools have many advanced and highly-educated professors who specialise in teaching people necessary skills in their lives. That is because these teachers have spent many years to learn these skills first, to be able to these others. As a result, they can provide more detailed guidance then friends and family who usually are not sufficiently well-trained. For example, a mentor has to spend minimum 4 years studying dress making in their undergraduate years before being qualified to teach in primary schools.

In conclusion, I firmly disagree that educational institutions should only concentrate on academic success and passing examinations and should neglect teaching skills because, school contains more effective facilities that can easily teach other children skills, and they have more professional mentors then unexperienced friends and families.