| Education is important. For thousands of years | | | | may benefit from classes outside of school hours and |
| knowledge has been passed from generation to | | | | may choose to send their child to dance lessons. The |
| generation, from basic survival skills to an | | | | role of a dance teacher is not dissimilar to that of a |
| understanding of culture and the arts. Children learn | | | | school teacher. They too need to recognise individual |
| an awful lot from their parents and immediate family | | | | strengths and weaknesses and have an ability to |
| in their formative years, how to communicate, being | | | | guide a child to success. A dance teacher should |
| toilet training and how to dress themselves may all | | | | always have a class small enough to allow them to |
| seem like very basic skills, but they are vital for | | | | pay individual attention to students, and there should |
| everyday life. The vast majority of children in the UK | | | | be a safe and healthy learning environment. Dance |
| are sent to school once they are old enough, and are | | | | teachers should be both supportive and encouraging, |
| taught by professional teachers who are trained to | | | | nurturing an innate talent and celebrating |
| understand their needs and recognise individual | | | | achievements of pupils. Most adults remember |
| strengths and weaknesses. Teachers are also | | | | teachers from their childhood, and there is often one |
| knowledgeable about different teaching techniques | | | | who stood out for being more understanding and |
| and styles of learning, and many students thrive in | | | | approachable than the others. There is no reason |
| the school environment. | | | | why a good dance teacher should not be |
| There are more lessons to be learned in schools than | | | | remembered in this way by former students for |
| the ones which take place in the classroom. Socialising | | | | years to come. |
| with a peer group at lunch times and break times | | | | Learning is not something which stops when school |
| also provides valuable knowledge about how to | | | | and college is finished. People continue to acquire new |
| interact with others. Children soon learn that sharing is | | | | skills throughout their lives. It can be amazing |
| important and how to treat others if they wish to be | | | | sometimes to watch a television programme and |
| treated nicely themselves. In any school environment | | | | realise how much there is still to learn about the |
| there may well be more difficult students who are | | | | wider world, and how much can still be achieved as |
| disruptive, and other students learn that these | | | | we get older. A great example of this is the story of |
| behaviours are not acceptable, about consequences | | | | Susan Boyle, who has recently become famous for |
| and about the affects of behaviour on others. | | | | her singing after years of trying to achieve |
| There is no reason why learning should be seen as | | | | recognition. The strain of Britain's Got Talent has |
| the business of schools and colleges alone. Reading, | | | | shown, but Susan Boyle is a great example that |
| writing and drawing at home can also really help a | | | | people should never give up on their dreams. |
| child to succeed. Some parents decide that their child | | | | |