The better alternative to this perception would be to assume that schools are places where students are given the opportunity to learn in a systematic fashion, but the process of learning is not confined to only those content that have been prescribed in the syllabus. It actually goes beyond that. Depending on the, opportunities given by teachers to their students to explore, students learn group values and group sub-cultures, learn to respect teachers and parents, learn about what is going on beyond school boundaries, learn to socialise, learn to be caring , and many more. Our teachers include those who teach us in schools, but there are many others. We learn from our friends and classmates.
Teachers learn from their students sometimes.
We learn, especially in the affective domain, from lyrics of a song, from movies, from talks over radio, from sermons in places of worship, from short stories, plays, novels and poems, from newspapers, from letters from greeting cards, from advertisements, from proverbs and quotations. These are our teachers. We also learn from events. We learn from road accidents, from taking a ferry from a point to the other destination, from the eclipse of the moon, from traveling by plane and all forms of travel. We learn a lot from our own actual personal experiences.