Conformity

In class we discussed the idea of conformity either at a younger age, in school, or later on once taking APs and honors courses. In my opinion we need to conform at an early age to be able to have the basic structural foundation inorder to communicate and relate with the rest of society. But as we move on and become more mature we should be able to move away from conformity and towards developing our own ideas. Once at higer levels in highschool and college it is important that students move away form conformity and start challeneging commonly believed idea and start forming their own ideas. But total nonconformity would just be unproductive and would lead to unnessary questioning.