What is the role of schools in our present society?

     I believe that schools are an avenue for our youngsters to discover themselves and the world where they live in as citizens and stewards. Furthermore, school should be the source of an accurate and functional view of the world, as well as the mirror of what the youngsters shall become in the future.
     Schools for that matter should demonstrate the universal virtues of respect and responsibility, compassion, and accountability, equality and conscience, and integrity and industry in order for us to see the world operate through these universal virtues. Nurturing the mind of the young people in school about who they should be and what they can be, or who their neighbors are and what they can do if they are in their neighbor's shoes, is a preparation for life that is worth investing for the future generations and yonder.
     Specifically, the school should provide a pleasant, healthy and safe working and learning environments for both students and the teachers. These are necessary if we want to prepare the children and young people for responsible citizenship and effective participation in the future society. Children growing up in pleasant, healthy, and safe environments will pursue the same environments for their children and children's children.
     The schools should also meet the needs of the students and the community from a culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and orientations. This provision is hoped to  ensure the development of a just and harmonious learning environment that shall eventually extend into the community and society where equality and respect of individual differences and ideology are fostered and upheld.   
     At present, schools should be an active instrument in accommodating the demands of the future. Schools nowadays are providing the youngsters with the technological capacity to rule the future in terms of economic predictions, social interactions, and miniaturization. With the foreseen withdrawal of personal touch into the present interactions in our society, i.e., online courses, online purchases, online dating sites, social media, among others, schools should take advantage of the available interactions inside the classroom that would ensure the the young minds would still appreciate the human presence in their future endeavors. The humane touch into every single conversation inside the classroom, and the use of the heart and the mind in every single decision that students are asked to make would definitely provide the youngsters with a solid foundation that schools are called for to establish. 
     Of is not that the heart of education is the education of the heart?