Schools are agents of socialization that not only teach us subject knowledge and life skills but also social skills through our interactions with teachers, staff, and other students.Our peers give us a chance to develop many of the social skills we need later in life.Agents of socialization are people, groups and/or institutions that influence self concepts, emotions, attitudes and behavior.The school is the agent responsible for socializing groups of children and young people on specific skills and values in a society.It helps; display role models for children to imitate, offer children ideas about the values of their society, provide children with images of achievement and success, activity and work, and equality and democracy.
school is considered as an important agent because it imparts us knowledge and gives us an opportunity to make friends. And school is also called the second home of a child
