School is defined as "an establishment offering specialized instruction" (School ). Today, we look at school and see it almost completely different than they did 75 years ago. Then, it was a privilege to attend school. Boys were only in school until 6th grade when their education ended. At that point they entered into the workforce to help support their families. Girls had it a little bit better. Some girls would make it through the 10th grade - if they were lucky. Then their schooling was complete. However, even many girls were taken out of school to be in the house. They would provide aide to the mother in cooking, cleaning, and general upkeep of the estate. Others live in areas of the world where there just aren't schools. They are too poor and have to go to work from an early age just to give their family a chance at survival. Both of these people groups had it good compared to the group known as slaves. There was no cutoff age for slaves. As soon as the owner saw that them to be fit they were serving him. This serving wasn't your average desk job. These kids were put through physical pain everyday just for their own daily survival. It kind of makes it a little easier to take an hour to do that math homework. It shows us how good we really have it. Those are three examples of what it still could be today. However, it is not that at all. Our kids have the opportunity to get some of the best education in the world but are so unappreciative and don't realize how big of a deal it really is to have this opportunity. There's an old saying that says, "You only get out of it what you put into it." I cannot put in zero effort and expect to just be filled with knowledge. This is our problem. Kids think that you can just show up every day and you will automatically learn. That's not true. It is all about what you do. In the dictionary school is classified as a noun. ("School ) However in all reality school is a verb. We have to do what