In my country, Indonesia, every student from kindergarten until Senior High School wear uniforms, national uniform (every school in each level wear same uniform, but have different badge in school's name) and identity uniform (every school have a right to choose the kind of uniform that they'll use, such as BATIK). And what are actually the functions and benefits from uniforms?
1. For the identity of every single children. When they walk in the morning and wear uniform, every people will know that children will go to school, and every people will know that child is a student, not an orphan, musician road, or another.
2. For the proudness of the children. When they go to school and wear uniform with badge contain school's name, they have a PROVE that they are student, not an orphan, musician road, beggar, or another. they will proud of themself because finally they have a BIG THING that can differentiate them with beggar or musician road.
3. For the unity of the children. We know that every children have a different family with different capability too. take an example, in Indonesia, we still have rich families and poor families, unite families and broken families, handsome/beautiful face and ugly face. When every children wear SAME UNIFORM in school, indirrectly they have been already united by UNIFORM. with wear SAME UNIFORM, the differentiation was had by every student will vanish, because SAME UNIFORM make a unite between student, no one rich student, no one poor student, no one handsome/beautiful student, no one ugly student, but ONLY ONE, STUDENT FROM X SCHOOL.
if we compare the time that spent by teenagers in school and home, we'll see that teenagers use their time in school more than in home. And if we see the nature of school itself is to mold student's characters, give student a lot of good knowledges, show student which is right which is wrong. because that, every student has a 'filter' in themself. means that student can separate which is good which is bad for them, include of their time management in using computer/videogames. teenagers play computer/videogames only for amuse themself and relax their brain after they study hard. so that's why we believe that teenagers aren't spending more time on computer/videogames rather than reading books, because they only spent less time to play computer/videogames. compare it, when we study at school, how much the time we spent to read books in school? with when we go back to our home, how much the time we spent to playing computer/videogames? if we added another activity that we do in home, of course the time we spent to playing computer/videogames in home less than time we spent to read books in school n home. Eat, Nap, Sleep, watch TV, or another, are another activities that we spent in home, n to do all of kind that activities, we need much time in home. means that time that we spent to play computer/videogames LESS THAN time that we spent to read books. Thanks.
