High School Experience

First of all I must say that I did high schools on two differents cities. Therefore I was able to experience two totally differents educational systems. The first one, on Chillan, was the classical school, very strict and severe. They made us to cut our hair very short and if we refuse then we were suspended for a week or so. In fact, it was a mason school, maybe that explains this behavior in teachers and autorithies. In the opposite side, here in Santiago I went to "francisco de miranda" school which it's known for it's "alternative" way of teaching and actually raising, that is in fact what a school should do. It's interesting how two completely different educational system can affect you. Here in Santiago I was always told that what's more important over every other thing is that you must be an "integral" beeing. It's not about just getting high grades and beeing best on your class. There's no point on beeing best in maths if you can't be the best person you can be. furthermore, here they teach me how to express my self freely, without feeling guilty or embarraced for my feelings and beliefs. In the other hand, this school always lacked of discipline. I mean, not that I was expecting a cop on my back to tell me what I should do or what I shouldn't do, but when you're -as I said before- raising childs or teenagers or whatever, it's necessary to show some discipline from time to time, because world often works in ways that we can't always deal with it if we're aren't properly prepared for it. Anyway, it's interesting how I was able to experience this two differents ways of teaching, I think it helped me a lot to grow and learn things that you don't usually learn in a class room.