Introduction

2 The criteria for satisfaction and how educational institutions can fulfill them 2.1 Health Just like crime, illnesses and diseases are better prevented than cured. Proper and efficient prevention can be costly but in the long run everyone will benefit from it since one need not suffer any pain and everyone can make full use of the education and jobs provided. Remember that diseases do not only drain your financial resources but also do stop you from renewing them. This applies to individuals in countries where the government does not provide health care as well as to the governments of the so called welfare states which cure illnesses by the money that the healthy ones earn which in turn might stir up dissatisfaction among the laboring force. I believe that many of our common illnesses derive from an unhealthy life style. Cancer from smoking is the obvious example, but there are many things like backaches, acne, 'mouse arm' (similar to 'tennis arm'), the fattening of veins, symptoms of stress, coughs, infections, toothaches, etc which people spend millions of dollars on every year and where we seldom realize how easy prevention would be. Many might find it to taxing to think of doing some stretching exercises now and then every day in the office, but I believe that is because they are not used to it. It has not yet become a habit like showering in the morning. There are many things we do daily not because we enjoy doing them so much or because they are so easy to do but simply because they are necessities and they've become a habit so we do not longer regard them as inconvenience. Examples include using seatbelts, brushing our teeth at least once a day, keeping schedules, locking the front door, and much more. A more developed and complete educational system can help develop habits that will keep the public healthier. Today's day care centers and schools are in most cases not even able to prevent pupils from smoking in areas where it is prohibited. Through more and better educated personnel, educational institutions can fill in the gaps that parents leave in a child's development of habits. This can be done in three ways: one way is to provide a better health education in general, that is, enrich the publics knowledge (through compulsory modules in school) of what is good and what is bad for one's health. Another way is to provide better facilities to make use of that knowledge (such as ergonomic furniture, healthier food in schools and free time centres, personal space to store a toothbrush and time to brush one's teeth in school etc. Yet a third way is for staff workers to actively watch over the habits of especially the younger, but even older pupils; this might seem like taking responsibility for young adults but I believe that it is necessary to remind people of things at times and that it can help develop a culture; this is also an appeal to everyone to remind your neighbours of how to live healthier. 2.2 Living standard 2.3 Activity 2.4 Knowledge 2.5 Attitude