subject: Student Life. School Phobia: A Whim Of A Problem To Consider? [print this page] The tempo of contemporary life requires a person to have except good skills and inherent intelligence a higher education degree. That is why to be successful in life one has to spend several years in some alma mater reading numerable books and lectures material like the prayer in order to become top dog. But present-day life provides evidence that education as an aim becomes impossible because education as a process prevents it. Psychologists sound the alarm: there appears a new psychological disease, school phobia. However, there are people whose attitude to this phenomenon remains skeptical. Let us consider what is school phobia: a whim or a serious problem?
School as a whim
Sometimes this so-called problem is a simple unwillingness to attend university. Students do not motivate their behavior because they understand their explications to be dishonest, illogical, and not valid. Laziness is a real problem in this situation that must be eradicated. In some cases life and time is a really good helper and healer.
School as a problem
At the mean time statistics shows real evidence that school phobia exists. For some students the necessity to attend school or university becomes a hysterics turning into a psychological stress and depression. The reasons of its appearance are various enough.
For some students a key factor for school phobia emergence is the preconceived attitude of professor. In some higher education establishments there are still professors who single out some students from the majority to be their pets. At the mean time they tend to cavil at every word and action of other students. They not only single out some students but begin to hate them and turn their studying process into a total hell. The only reasonable thing here to do is to find out the level of such problem and means of its solution. School must be a place to obtain knowledge first of all.
