Conformity And Individuality In Schools

School by majority the dreaded time between kindergarten and twelfth grade and possibly longer, students go through their day in 45 minute blocks with a few precious minutes in between, while also learning to develop their individual personality. Our world is constantly in need of the next great creative mind while also needing those who can continue to make the system work. It is up to schools to teach students how to be unique while also learning to conform into society.

Our society is a machine that runs off of the working class when people come out of school many people go straight into the machine hopefully knowing where their place is. Students in schools are taught together in large groups all in the same style and all the same information so that everyone has a level playing field. Even classes that encourage creativity have an element of conformity within them a choir learns the same music and learns to move and blend together. Students are even taught how to read and
Conformity teaches you about fitting in a working society, and individuality teaches you about being yourself and not blending in too much with the crowd. While cooperating in a working society can help deflate uprising problems, getting used to changes, and completing work fast and easy, it can also make your personality go from special to bland. Trying too hard to get along and do work can allow you to get used to getting walked all over. This is when individuality can give you a personality and stand up for yourself in these situations. Individuality can offer many things such as creativity, confidence, and inspiration. Just as conformity is, individuality has some cons also, such as distraction, false hope, and too much of an egoistic personality. Both have pros and both have faults, but conformity and individuality work together in different ways to make a person who he or she