text: Some may disagree that classes at school are beneficial because it doesn't allow student to learn at their own pace. While understandable, that reasoning is flawed due to the fact that if students aren't challenged enough they won't be able to see what they can accomplish. An example would be Michael Phelps, the youngest swimmer to join the American team in the Olympics. He was fifteen when he joined and he barely made the cut, being second to the last person before being cut off from the Olympics that year. He pushed himself to become the greatest swimmer of all Olympic history. Now he has over twenty Olympic gold medals and has set world records and even beat the records he set himself. Without the challenge, he wouldn't have accomplished any of those things today. This also applies to school, without setting challenges for oneself, then one can never accomplish things they only dreamed about. School helps students push themselves to become better people who strive for bigger goals.