Some people believe that school molds the intellect and skills and not the virtues and attitudes of its students. Do you agree or disagree? Give examples based on your own knowledge and experience.

I totally disagree with the notion that schools have no effect on the virtues and beliefs of students but that they

instead

simply shape the intellectual and

skill sets

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of people. To adopt

such

a position flies in the face of the reality of the cultures that shape us and in which schools function. A student who enters the educational system in

this

country is almost inevitably going to be shaped by the traditional and conservative Catholic beliefs that are so dominant here.

This

is true, particularly

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primary and secondary school.

Furthermore

, even if studying at a non-sectarian public university after

this

indoctrination and value-formation period, beliefs and attitudes are largely

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and carried into the tertiary system. These values are simply reinforced and hardened by sectarian universities and private institutions that are overwhelmingly Catholic.

Moreover

, even granted that

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are, in theory, focused on the development of intellect and skills, critical, creative thinking skills,

although

supposedly at the

center

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of learning, are sadly lacking or entirely absent when issues of religion or morality are discussed. Dissent is punished and conformity is rewarded. In

this

way, the attitudes of society are at war with and supersede, the need to encourage the intellect. Schools

then

act as a kind of lobotomizing agent, crushing

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and initiative. In my own experience, I have witnessed the opposition of the church to reproductive health and the

right

of women to control

this

.

Although

I accept that the church has the

right

to object, I find their opposition within the education system and their attempts to

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students, objectionably, given the separation of Church and State under the 1987 Constitution. I believe it is a woman’s

right

to choose and I defend my

right

to think so. I

therefore

completely and unequivocally reject the idea that values and attitudes are not influenced at school and that intellect and skill

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passed on.

On the contrary

, I believe that value formation trumps skills and we must be conscious of

this

fact.