text: This independence is valued by students, as it gives them a chance to think for themselves and come up with new and valid ideas that they may not have been given otherwise. For example, when women were granted the right to vote almost one hundred years ago, their thinking and ideas did not fit with the structure already in place in society for hundreds of years. For those hundreds of years, women were not given the chances and opportunities to be independent until they worked to prove their ideas to be valid. Although this does not directly relate to school, it provides a great example as to an individual student being able to use their independent thinking to create great ideas that can benefit them now and in the far future.