Many people believe that eighteen years old is the appropriate age to finish school. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Education lays a solid foundation for personal and social growth globally. Some argue that it should be age appropriate: up to eighteen years, to facilitate other important endeavours in life, while others disapprove of this. This matter, in my view, needs to be critically analysed.
To begin with, juveniles should finish their formative education at eighteen because the curriculum is designed according to the age and intellectual ability of young minds; as they grow up, they develop analytical, problem-solving and interpersonal skills, required, for their later life, in several areas like higher education, training, employment and business. For example, in India, those completing high school obtain better opportunities by attaining correct academic qualifications, and hence, can become doctors, professors, engineers, and so forth, early in their lives.
Nevertheless, a lobby questions the former notion and believes that many in professions such as artists or players, can pursue their desired occupations, after receiving a certain level of schooling and can successfully achieve their ambitions, so completing formal learning is not a hard and fast rule. For example, several renowned cricketers and actors work sixteen hours a day from an early stage, and rarely visit schools regularly, and complete higher secondary through distance education systems later. Similarly, not all learners grow at the same pace in academics due to differences in learning abilities, so they join family entrepreneurship, or are enrolled in vocational training, and as a result, earn better success than their schoolgoing counterparts.
To conclude, I opine that even though schooling is imperative, it should not be a norm for all; some can accomplish their goals even without completing high school. There have been several instances, wherein youngsters have earned success without visiting school for the complete tenure of twelve years.
