‘School Plays A More Important Role Than The Family In Shaping One's Personality.’ Discuss.
An individual’s personality is influenced by many factors throughout one’s life. Amongst the rest, family and school are the two which stand out further and have a larger impact on a person’s life. Each can affect a person in significant ways and both can be positive or negative influences.
One might argue that, if a child has a close relationship with their family members, discussion would then follow, therefore the family (mostly parents) would compromise and induce rules, finding a way in between both opinions. As a result of this; lower criminality and substance abuse, they could proceed further in education, better choices made in what is right and what is wrong, a higher self-esteem would be formed and an overall life-satisfaction. When a person has a positive family background he or she might find it easier to make choices and to overcome problems and is more likely to develop a more positive attitude on the whole.
Before a person begins to go to school the largest source of learning is from home and through family. An individual, at first, learns basic manners, respect, in what way he should or should not speak, etiquette, how to act and react or simply how he or she should sit, from home. Of course, family could be bad influence just as well as a good one. If children are brought up in a troubled environment they are most likely to become disturbed and troubled themselves. If such simple manners aren’t introduced to a child at an early stage, it will not necessarily be the child’s fault that he or she is impolite, vulgar or selfish due to the fact that the child does not know any better.
As much as family plays a major role in one’s life, school could possibly have an equal or even greater, to some extents, importance in shaping one’s personality. This is where what one has learnt at home is put to the test. If at home the child was used to abiding by rules this will come easy and more natural for him or her to do so at school, because it will not...
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