How is high school a microcosm of the world?

Answer 1

"the Greater is reflected in the smaller".

Any group dynamic is comparable to the world becasue whenever a group of people get together they will exhibit the same types of behavior. High School is no different. It is a Microcosm of society. There will be allegiences formed, disputed will arise, and competition will take place. Hierarchies will form that will dictate the behavior of the classes. Many other types of general social behavior will be present.

In a nutshell, any group will generally display the attributes of the world at large.

Answer 2

In high school there are good days and there are bad, friends and enemies, people who care about you and people who could care less, opportunities for progressing and opportunities for regressing. There are times of loss and times of gain, times of embarassment and times of pride, sadness and happiness, radical change and seemingly endless repetition. High school, like the world, is the setting for a gamut of contradictions, differences, and ambiguous sitiuations. High school is a microcosm of the world because being in high school is being in the world. Stepping out of the high school door is leaving merely one microcosm behind to move about in the larger macrocosm of the world in which you have always already been situated.

Answer 3

High School is not anything like the real world but I suppose that the similarity (if there is one) is that we think that our surroundings are all there is to life. There's so much more out there than we ever imagined (and that includes those who aren't in High School).

Answer 4

Ignorance, bigotry, racism, homophobia, tribalism, egotism, laziness, and the whole thing organised by unmotivated civil servants...how could that possibly be like the wider world?

Answer 5

It isn't. H.S. is fantasy world. Transistion begins in college or first real job, and then on to the reality of life and the world.

Answer 6

Definitely not.

Answer 7

If it only was...