Real history that explains how existing power structures came to exist. Not the bullshit history that schools teach, which is just wrote memorization and usually ignorant of the most important themes of class struggle.
Cooking, efficient cleaning, basic repairs
I’d say argumentation. How to structure and analyse an argument, find flaws and questioning ideas.
I would have also said “proper source finding and research”, “how to analyse a texts” and “cooking/diet” but thinking back, that was taught or atleast attempted but not done in a way that i understood its intend and reason until now. These also are probably only done in my country/state/school and due to my teachers
Morality, mostly. School is okay at teaching information, but is pretty bad at teaching behavior and mindset.
Also, actual history and current events. Holy shit US history classes are bad. Even AP history barely touches on the political concepts that are the backbone of the subject. It’s all war war battles dates war.
Confidence in self-sustainability.
I don’t know what a better word would be. I’m not talking about making some self sustaining homestead or whatever, just the act of creating, building, repairing or designing something without having a guide to tell you how to do it.
You know, “draw the rest of the owl”, but I’m dead serious. Just draw that fucking owl. You don’t need someone to show you how or to guide your hand through all the steps.
probably doing thier taxes, getting jobs and look at the job markets for many industries, something Public schools and even colleges are allergic to even discussing about. additionally, getting participation grades will not help you succeed in college, which is partially the k-12 districts fault, because students bring in the assumption that they will get easy As,Bs in certain college courses only to wash out even from CC. also discussing how military recruiters lurk around schools or public places to prey on the disadvantaged.
Cooking, each generation is losing the skill.
Wouldn’t it be better to have affordable delivery food? Cooks focus on the cooking, regular people won’t have to spend so much time learning and doing cooking, and focus on their own work/play
A human is not an ant! We don’t have to specialize THAT hard! A person should be able to read, cook, clean, do laundry, hammer a nail, screw a screw, paint a picture, and write a poem, at the very least.
that list feels a bit outdated. What about write a simple program? Make basic 3d models and 3d prints? Some photography and video editing. Design a simple website. Even if you aren’t a tiktoker, these are fairly essential skills in the modern world. And if we’re throwing in poetry and painting, might as well throw in music, sports, sewing, gardening.
I’m not saying humans should specialize on a single skill. I just think people should be able to choose not to cook in favor of learning other skills. At a certain point, society should reach a point where somebody can say “I don’t need a kitchen in my house, I’ll just eat out all the time”.
I got taught that in school as well as all the basic nutritin stuff
patience, empathy, and compound interest.
As a teacher for a decade. Read a clock, understand geography, science activities, history activities. We teach out of a manual now, and it’s all so the admins can jerk off to higher scores for ELA and Math.
Wait in some countrys learning to read clock isnt primary school material?
- financial literacy
- teach them what money means and what their time is worth
- philosophy
- teach them about multifaceted perspectives, there isn’t good vs evil but multiple shades of gray
- resiliency
- impose upon them that failure only happens when you learn nothing from your mistakes, everything else is just a setback
- health and medical
- teach them about their body, what it means to eat nutrient rich meals, and first aid
- self-reliance
- when you’re the only person with a clue, you’re your only hope, be your own advocate and rely on your own skills and judgment
all the other things like ethics, empathy, emotional IQ, constructive thought, etc will fall into place with a basic understanding of the above. the point is to challenge them and provide a support system for when they fall.
- financial literacy
Financial literacy and responsibility, life skills: laundry, dishes, vacuuming, hygiene, cooking and recipe reading. General well being, teach them to be somewhat physical regularly and exercise with them to promote it more so.
That last part is essential. People learn much more habits from observing people than from being told. Best one can do is be a good role model.
@gigastasio do you really need to send your child to school ?
Media literacy, financial responsibility, mutual aid, critical thinking and critical analysis, reciprocity, playing music.
Critical thinking skills - they’re actually very difficult to teach and constantly incorporating them into everyday life is super important
The easiest but most tricky way is through paranoia. It’s easier to look at the bigger picture of whatever you’re presented with if you always doubt the intentions of the one doing the presenting. Of course that could backfire by then doubting subject matter experts like doctors and physicists and end up becoming antivaxxers or flat earthers.
This is why teaching formal logic and basic philosophy should be right up there with critical thinking skills in general
Compound Interest.
and
If it seems to good to be true, you’re probably getting scammed.
You didn’t learn compound interest in school?
I did.
(i actually took AP Stats and learned a good deal more than that)
But many, many do not.
And it is of vital importance that that anyone in this … final stage capitalist / technofeudal dystopia understand it well.
The US education system at least has fallen off a goddamned cliff, average kid is now 3 years behind grade level in literacy, I think its similar with numeracy.
Shits gettin’ real bad, really fast… if you have kids, you need to make sure they understand compound interest.
