The Ideal School - Expository Writing

    An ideal school, one that will be the perfect for developing us students, the one which we will be most comfortable in studying in and one that allow us to explore and find out our weaknesses and strengths. Who will not want to study in such a school? To me, an ideal school will need to have good teachers, peers who are good influence and have facilities for learning in perfect condition.

     Firstly, for students to learn, we need to have teachers that teach us. Teachers should be friendly, should be willing to pass the knowledge to us, and should be able to engage us into the lessons by making them more interesting. Nikos Kazantzakis, a Greek writer and philosopher of the 20th century, said, "Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own." This showed that teachers also need to be able to help us students study well and be a use for the society. Thus, teachers are important in our life as they play an important role in teaching us.

     Secondly, we need to have ideal peers. There is a Chinese saying that "进朱者赤，进墨者黑”, which means that good friends have good influence and bad friends have bad influence. Nobody will want to have friends that are bad influence. Most students stray for the rightful road because of friends with bad influence, they might convince us to smoke, drink alcohol and even take drugs! This will cause a dent in our life, our life will change because of our friends. We should make a good choice and choose the right friend. Thus, friends and classmates will make a different, and in an ideal school, they will be as important as our teachers.

      Thirdly, an ideal school should have excellent facilities. An ideal school will definitely not have just 4 classrooms for 5,000 students! Also, other facilities might include the lighting, the ventilation and other support facilities such as rooms for science experiments and rooms for computer lessons.  Also, technology can be added to allow the school to have better facilities, just like the Future School @ HCI, where we use computers to help in our learning. This helps in the future, since the technology in the world is getting better, we will need to use technology in the future. Therefore, facilities can make a difference in our life and an ideal school will need to have excellent facilities, which should be in good working condition for us to use.

      In conclusion, an ideal school will need to be a place where we can not only study well, but also a place where we can make good friends that can affect our future. Although having excellent facilities might not be as important as good friends or good teachers, it can affect as in the future. Therefore, an ideal school should have good teachers and friends, as well as good facilities.