In the beginning J would like to say that it is easier for me to think about school in the future concerning ten years time. Nice teachers, interesting lessons, good grading system and elektronic didactic helps are aspects to discuss in details: Nowadays we hardly meet nice teachers. We can often meet teachers in the hall and if you don't say "Good Morning" then you can pray to God, not to got a bad mark on the next lessons. That is why in my school only the good theteachers, could get a job. In this school people who want to teach have to pass some exams. Those exams show who is apprioprate for the position of a teacher. As for as marks are concerned students can correct them as many times, as they want it. This solution I think is very good becouse if they are motivated to correct it even many times your knowledge on a particular subject will improve and all students will be pleased with their grades. In this way not only will knowledge be reflected in marks, but also their willingness to study hard.

Another feature of my imagined school is modern, elektronc equipment. Students will have notebooks and cupboards with elektronic lock. It will help to create fascinating lessons and make scholl it self less dangerous.

What is more every lesson will stasrtlike that: teacher will present several subjects that can be done that day, students will have a feeling that they have a choice what to learn. What will make learners more antonomous and more eager to learn. I belive that each of those examples is good idea to improve learning system and they all create my view on school in the future. I hope that once day thanks to many excelent and novative ideas both students and teachers will feel in the school comfortable and ready to work!!!

Janusz Kotanowicz

"School"-this word associates not very well to many students, maybe except these from the first classes of primary school. So what's wrong with today's school? As regards Polish educational system, some changes and improvements would be well seen because there isn't much to boast of. So what will school in 2050 be like?

The technical boom is rapidly changing our world and this applies equally well to school. Something that was completly unknown a few years ago and seemed to be impossible nowadays doesn't surprise anyone. The most probable scenario is common schools by the Internet. Pupils will be sitting in front of a computer screen and taking part in e-lessons.

Everybody will be able to learn at any time of the day or night( it's good news for night owls) which suit him\her best, so the speed and time of studying would only depend on you. This will cause ambitious students to pass all their exams in a very short period of time whereas the lazy ones will "never" finish them.

Thanks to the Internet students won't have to commute to schools and therefore the environment won't be so polluted. Moreover some typical problems for this age like drugs taking will decline. On the other hand there are some social cons of studing via Internet. Less human contact will be possible, people will communicate in a virtual way. The students society will be much different.

But what will happen if school as a building still exists? They will be designed in a modern way and generally environment-friendlier, because fewer trees will be cut for paper. Now pupils are fed up with carring heavy textbooks, writing with chalk on blackboards and taking stressful exams. These will surely change so it will be better for our health (both physical and mental).

Teachers will be well-paid as they will educate new generations of citizens. There are even some voices that every student will be taught individually, however it wouldn't be a perfect solution because many students like cooperating in a group or competing with the others, but it's obvious that there will be less numerous classes because of decreasing number of youth.vThe way of teaching will change as well. Students will have unlimited access to new technological appliances. Now these are computers, the Internet and so on, but in the future nobody knows what may be useful. Physical education will change.

Extreme sports won't be uncommon and each school will have access to swimming pool and fitness gym.vNext there will be better cooperation between schools from all over the world and it would be great to attend an international class with classmates who come from England,India, Japan, New Zealand and many more or just commute to another country by fast planes (tickets are steeply getting cheaper these days, so it's a chance that in a near future an average student will be able to afford them).

A curiosity is the fact that some of us claim that no school will exist. Genetic engineering will make all people so smart and intelligent that education won't be needed!vIt's hard to say how school in the future will look like. Somebody may think that it wil be ideal, but it won't. As we know everything as always is a question of money and the problem lies here. I think there is hope that one day some of these visions will come true, children will run to school with pleasure and school won't be treated as necessery evil anymore. I'm looking forward to at least one change. I hope that in about 50 years' time the Polish system of education reaches the same level as in western Europe. This is what I wish for my grandchildren. But time will tell!

Here are several interesting opinions of the students of our school about the school of the future:

"students wouldn’t have to choose specific profiles, it would be their decision which subjects and how many hours they will learn. I think that it would help to develop hobbies, and prepare better for studies."

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"I don’t want to build flying chairs or things like that, but I think that classrooms are in really bad condition. On the whole the building isn’t prepared for children with disabilities.It`s a big mistake because all of us should have the same chances, besides it is better to learn in clean, fresh classes." (Tomasz Hlebionek)

"I dream that every student will have a computer for himself. On this computer we’ll write tests and every lesson will be on the screen. Students will see what the teacher says.

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In my favourite school I would like to have nice teachers. (Ania Marciniak)

"We should also choose subjects that we want to attend. For example I don’t like biology, so I don’t attend it, but I take part in another lessons like mathematics, physics, computer science, because I enjoy it and for me these subjects will pay off in the future.

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Teachers complain about us very often, that we don’t take part in lessons and we don’t want to talk. I think the reason is that we are afraid, because when we want to say what we relly think, teachers disagree with us. And what is worse, they give bad marks or laugh at our opinions. So I think marks should disappear and points should appear. It will be more honest and less stresful. We will work more willingly and not under pressure, so we will have better mood, what hardly ever happens nowadays" (Justyna)

"Students do not want to listen to boring lectures and teachers hate undisciplined students. There should be more conversations, it could change image of "bad" school." (Mateusz Kawa)

"Schools in our times are not so good. They haven’t got very good equipment. The main power that give us konowledge are teachers. I wouldn’t be so sure that people are the best to pass the knowledge. Perhaps in the future something better will be responsible for our knowledge?"

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"Maybe computer could enter our memory and check our knowledge level. If there will be too low knowledge level, they will copy information from special CDs. Gym will have a modern stuff who train us automatically." (Filip Kowalski)

"When I hear "the school of the future" I do not imagine a cosmic building or something fantastic. I understand it as a real European school with high standard of studying. It does not have to be in the far future but might be for example in three years time."

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"To provide nice and positive climate youth should have choice of teachers in their disciplines. This would preclude troubles which sometimes rise up between unfitted people. Naturally, it would make that at school there would be the best teachers, only professionalists with solid education and attitude based on partnership."

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"This great school should also give its users professional equipment and surrounding, what would make school building pleasant and encouraging to work. Scientists claim that what we are surrounded by in our workplace, has a very big impact on our efficiency. To sum up, I think that school of the future should appeal to students and make them feel happy and self-assured. I hope that European Union will help our education to achieve it all." (Marcin Łotysz
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"there will be no marks. They are stressful. Subject will only be passed or not passed. An exam will take place once a month. Levels of your knowledge depend on you. Your life, your choice."(Tomasz Ziemek)

"schools should receive a lot of money from the government. This money should be spent on good equipment for every, even the smallest country school."(Natalia Niewidok)

"As we know school existed, exists and for sure still will. But I think it won’t change as much as we sometimes imagine. I’m sure teachers will make pupils stand in the corner, move them to another seat, sometimes shout, send somebody to the headmaster (…) and on the other hand pupils will disrupt the lesson, talk back, swot for exams, attend classes irregularly, lag behind in math or other subjects."

"There will be better cooperation between schools all over the world and an exchange teacher won’t be anything unusual. And maybe class will also be international. Well it seems very interesting to have a classmate from England, Canada, Japan, Russia and many more." (Anna Wadówka)

" The school is an ideal place for drug dealers (…). Dealers will have no occasion to sell drugs [ in a school by the Internet], because there won’t be any schools" (Angelika Rzepecka)

"When I close my eyes I see that in avery classroom there are comfortable and good-looking armchairs. Everybody is sitting and carrying on discussions on various topics." (Marta Kubacka)

" The learning program will concentrate on ‘what will be’ , not on ‘what was’. I don’t deny the importance of history but some points of the history are not needed for everyone" (Jakub Wartak)

" I want to be a teacher. I want to be honest, fair and friendly for students. I want to teach in primary schools. (…) There should be many toys and games. Drinks and sandwiches for free"(Joanna Kuskowska)"

"Many people think that school won’t change for at least two hundred years (…) students will still have to go to ordinary schools" (Krzysztof Krawczyk)

" Last but not least are the students. Everybody will be intelligent. Nobody will swot and copy because everybody will be well prepared by capable teachers" (Patrycja Czyż)

" It is possible that you won’t have to buy books because knowledge will be available on CDs or the Internet for free." (Mariusz Stępień)

" Every school will have a fitness club, a swimming pool, luxury bathrooms, internet halls and museums on standard" (Katarzyna Gajowa)

" Many people say that in about 50 years there will be no schools or we will learn by some kind of internet. I don't think so!(…) The school as a place will survive because the school mental meaning of it is very big for students." (Arkadiusz Tomczyk)

Patrycja Kotecka