Roger Neilsons Towel

Other things you become a full fledged adult without being mandatorily taught in schools:

-The law

-Your rights

-CPR/first aid

-Nutrition

-How money works

-How to make/build a resume

-How to budget

-How to survive in your local environment for three days without help

-Plant ID

Honestly, schools don't teach the basics of life and falsely assume that will be taught by outside influences. They're mistaken, and IMHO the complete focus on education should be changed from creating workers to creating citizens.

Very well said. Couldn't agree more.

Thanks. 

I think we still live in an antiquated mindset with regards to education, that your high school will be your only set for a large part of the population before you go get a job for life. That doesn't happen anymore. 

Our current market in Canada has 80% of people pursuing secondary education at some point and often later in life, as well as multiple different times. People now are more likely to have 3-4 distinct career changed throughout life, and we have no idea what age this generation of school aged children will live to our retire at. The basic fundamentals have changed IMO. 

Yes to literacy, basic maths, science and history. That should remain. But what we need to add is a contextual and applied approach to the execution in f that knowledge. 

Literacy? Also read legal docs, resumes, the Charter, as well as Shakespeare. Maths? Also do taxes, budgets, and accounting. Science? Do local biology, nutrition, intense first aid, household chemistry. History? Make it living...it needs to be hands on. 

And bs it should all be done every year and re-inforced. All other job skills can be learned after adulthood and chosen by the individual.