Education should not be an obligation

Education is something that is supposed to be the builder of our foundations as human beings. The knowledge we acquire from it, has to estructure our minds since we are children, but, now that I've experimented almost all the different steps of the education programme, I find many is issues that should be revised.

Since we are three or four years old, we have to go to school, we have to go away from our home every morning and leave behind the routine as babies and start to acquire a knowledge that will stay in our minds forever; in a way or another, education begins to create the person we will be in the future and, although this is something required and basic for anyone, this also can turn into the most traumatic experience in a children's life.

If we analyse it, we can find the reason why some children don't want to go to school and they start seeing it like an obligation. In many cases, children can realise that they are being forced to learn how to read ot write when actually, they are not prepated to advance and be able to do it yet.

I have lived that, in fact, I still remember myself trying to pretend being ill when my mother woke me up to go to school.At that time, I only knew that school was not a good place for understanding me, it was not a place to let me enjoy myself and have a good time playing, instead of that, it seemed to be the place when I went out crying when I was feeling very shy to talk to the teachers, to sum up, the worst place in the whole world for a four-year old little girl.

Fortunately, this situation has changed as the time I was growng up, or best said, I had to change if I wanted to survive the following six years of primary school.

Now, my little cousin is the one who is suffering the same as I did. He hates going to school, he says he is sick in order to avoid going to school, and I completely understand him, unlike his parents.

All children are not the same, they have to face different challenges and have to determinate their personality, but honestly, I don't see the point in making them feel misunderstood or guilty if they only need more time than their other peers. My own experience, my cousin's experiences and the others in millions of children lives, make me think that education should be taken in another way.