School as a place of learning

Most of us take it for granted that this is what school is. The very definition of the term school, according to the Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian Language, means "A public educational institution where the basics of the main subjects are taught. The premises, the building in which the above institution is installed and operates".

In Romanian, the notion of school combines both the concept of the act itself, the institution dedicated to teaching, and the building dedicated to the process. But is today's school a place for learning or has it become, rather, a place of dry teaching, dissociated from the concept of knowledge, systematically limited by corsets applied through successive layers of institutional bureaucracies and "axiomatic" ideas perpetuated under the banner of custom?

As I see it, the school as an edifice must first and foremost be capable of being the "place" for learning, whatever form this process takes and whatever moment in ti