What is the #1 thing you wish you were taught in school?

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StormChaser838 · Accepted Answer

Hey, my little Fluff, I get very little time to talk to u'll these days. Answering these little cute questions transforms me into a kind of smurf world, I mean after the hell I live in and experience the whole day. I usually write these questions while I'm eating dinner after a grueling day at work, or while I'm taking a dump. After the cutting dog eat dog world during the day, you'll are such a contrast of little cute cuddliness. I get the same serotonin rush that I get with hugging animals, I swear. I feel I am transformed somehow to a caricatured world.
Back to the question, and you are not going to believe this but I never learnt shit in school or college. Till the eight grade I always came last in every class. You may find that hard to believe because I now come across as quite a smart ass, and I even completed my masters and nearly did my PHD. But for most of my school life I came last in class.
I used to get zero on 100 many , many times. Then in the end of the 8th grade I suddenly said let me try giving class a shot, I also had a nerd friend to help me. You will not believe it but by the end of the 9th grade I started coming even first in class and even got 100 on 100 many times.
I must be the only cunt who has come first and last in class, and has got 100 on 100 and 0 on 100, and I must say I did not feel dumber or smarter either way. School is all crap. Most of what I learnt I learnt on my own, with a book and a bottle of scotch, reading under a tree. I have read a whole lot of shit, from Kant, to Hegel, to Socrates, to the Bible, to the Quran, and on and on. Can you imagine how much scotch I have drunk? But I never learnt shit in class.
In the time of Plato or the renaissance, or any of the golden phases of learning they never learnt the way they do today, meaning the bullshit system we have today. If you wanted to be a painter or sculptor during time of Davinci, theory was a very small part, mainly, soon after the theory, you would then take an apprenticeship with a master like Michelangelo, or some cat , and then after years with him you would then get a graduation signed by him. On that is what I wish I learnt in school. If you go to engineering school you should come out of school with practical applied hands-on knowledge of your field of study. You should have a trade so to speak. EDUCATION TODAY IS A FARCE.

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razelove · Accepted Answer

CPR, basic first aid, and how cross contamination can kill you are only things you learn if they're job specific, or you want to learn them.
Hell, I remember when I was on a date one time and started choking, I felt these gentle soft hands going through the motions and thought, well, this is where I die. Until these big rough mitts wrapped around me and crushed my ribs to pop the food out.
Your last one is interesting too. When I was getting discharged from the Marines we had 2 or 3 days of courses for that, mostly just for re-integrating to the civilian world, like it isn't ok to kick someone's ass if they mess up, or strut your rank that doesn't matter anymore.
I think everything else is situational, like how useful it will be depends on the person, for those who can use it, chances are they're already going that direction. Like learning another language if you're moving to another country, or many from another country are moving to your area, learning more about taxes and the law if you're opening a business, so on and so forth.

provokeesmokee · Accepted Answer

Fortunately because I am not American, most of these were covered in my curriculum anyways.

I think being able to be open about your perspectives, share them effectively with others, and also listen actively to others' opinions is handy.

Likewise, teaching kids to identify misinformation and mange their social media habits would go a long way to preventing idiocy later on in life.

jennifer_bloom · Accepted Answer

Child care is what I voted for, cause my friend's baby got a cold and I told her I drink honey water when I'm sick and she told me honey is toxic for newborn babies. I did not know that cause I never had my own child.

Unit1 · Answer

Taxes, filing for tax returns (income, reimburse, medical...)
How to apply for jobs and answer interview questions
How credit score and credit cards work and how they work together
How to change oil in vehicles
Basic Economics
First aid
Basic Medicine
Independent contractor stuff
Managing workplace conflicts
Investing and trading (stocks, crypto...)
How to use call centers correctly (we need this so that the hotline support stops using AI to deter legitimate support requests from clients)
Self defense
How to work 2 jobs (on top of regular employment) simultaneously

You know, we'd have a very strong and prosperous society if we were not forced to memorize some random information garbage poems from 1900s and then decipher its meanings beyond our interpretation.

or calculating random stuff without real world applications or memorizable guidelines (finding x, y, arccos in geometry). Think of it like finding the distance between Uranus and the sound of hornets given that the sky smells like the color purple.

or making students feel like the biggest morons in the country (further discouraging them from trying) just for scoring low or not knowing when and by whom the Warsaw pact was signed and why it was signed and what the agreement was all amount and how it ended. Or what special material the Aztecs used for what purpose.

And that for 9-13 years long.

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D_Bone_Steak · Answer

Taxes for sure... I got an accounting degree and I'll be honest... most of that shit should've been taught way before finding the value of x and y for a slope... shit you'll never use versus shit you have to do every fucking year for the rest of your life, which should be more important?

But now a fucking huge amount of you out there pay someone like me a couple of hundred dollars to do those taxes for you. It's beneath the High School level in my opinion... they just leave you clueless about how to do it.

nitsuj86 · Answer

The fact that financial literacy and interest rates are not taught in high school is insane to me.

Sending a bunch of children out into the world to sign up for multiple thousands of dollars in debt is retarded.

You're not old enough to buy a beer, but you can borrow 100,000 dollars to for a gender studies degree lol.

Lionman95 · Answer

The first for sure, I don´t think the last should be taught in school because it´s too vulnerable if you are asked to talk about traumatic experiences in a class room setting. For me the issue with the first is that none of the things I know about finances and accounting I know from school. Since I come from a family where most don´t know much of it either none of them is a good help in such questions.

Lowiu · Answer

My language choice in school was latin and like thats fucking useless

SawerBrown · Answer

History is important to learn from both a personal and business perspective as history always repeats itself in one way or another if you understand history you can then predict reasonably accurately how to move to protect your assets and investments.

John_Doesnt · Answer

Risk management and investing. Most people are financially illiterate when they leave school and continue to make bad choices as "investments". It took me 10 years to finally get educated on proper investing and how to manage my risks. I could have learned all that stuff in 2 years if I had been taught that in college.

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

well we had different ears and perspectives in history (from sumerians to roman empire to inquisition etc.)

we had French German and English

for Internet & Media we only had like 1 extra curriculum session about internet safety (that was in 2008 though) but wished we had more about it

for CPR, basic safety and emergency we had like nothing, though I think it is really necessary, also just had one day where police visited us and showed basic emergency skills in case of a car crash

mental health was almost out of the game, too bad

confidence in sharing own opinion was pretty much respected

budgeting and taxes was also out of the game sadly

Anonymous · Answer

definitely one of the first two - i love history and i have the internet to learn about more, we were taught french but i can't remember much now so maybe being taught a language from a much younger age, emotional regulation would be nice too i guess but will cross that bridge when i come to it - but i definitely would've benefitted from learning more about budgeting/tax and basic first aid and safety

TheUniqueOne96 · Answer

Emotional regulation, coping skills, and mental health education for anxiety, depression, and trauma.

A person's mindset is just so important.

Great question with great options though, as more than one listed is important.

petitedollbabee · Answer

Mental health education. Everything else out of those options were already offered as subjects at my school.

OfMiceandMen · Answer

We are required to take the French language in school, I wish we would have had the choice of some other languages in addition to French.

Simslover92 · Answer

Budgeting, learning about credit cards and how to properly manage them and especially how taxes work.

CheeseMonster · Answer

Yeah, knowing what anxiety was and that there's things you can do about it before I graduated highschool would have been nice.

Tamera952 · Answer

That all the elements heavier than Hydrogen are made in stars.

Xoxocutekitty · Answer

Frankly, I wish they had divided health class by gender and talked about healthy relationships and green flags.

Relationships aren't about the "what he said she said", it's about the why and how and when of whomever said what.

RavVid · Answer

Written communications. It was taught very badly. The reason it was taught badly is all those English lessons went on LITERATURE instead of being able to write concisely and precisely which is what you need to be able to do. Stuff CREATIVITY.

Date_a_Snob · Answer

I wish I had learned French. I wish we had also been taught budgeting.

LiamJHayden · Answer

I would have loved to have had budgeting, investing, how interest can be your friend or bitter enemy, etc. taught.

smahala1991 · Answer

We actually had a class that taught taxes and budgeting in my high school which I took called adult living

Pterodon · Answer

That none of the shit they’re cramming down your throat is that important

snowboarder720 · Answer

Damn. I voted for learning another language and then after scrolling down I REALLY wanted to vote for coping with mental struggles.

DizzyDesii · Answer

CPR, self defense (like karate), writing resumes and other physical skills aside from shop/culinary arts

007kingifrit · Answer

we should have been taught civic duty and morality

misogynistic_pig · Answer

None of that is useful to me, it would have served me molecular bases for life, to see if I could enter medical school.

ohsheeT · Answer

I do like all this but I'm going to go with cause and effect

bolverk · Answer

I was taught all of the above at school with the exception of Internet Privacy etc, it did not exist way back then.

JSmuve · Answer

A trade would've been nice. It'd be nice to learn how to do functional things for yourself instead of paying other people to do them for you.

Anonymous · Answer

Opt. G #1 Opt. A #2 Opt. D #3

helva · Answer

Emotional regulation because I find it very usefull

Iron_Man · Answer

Well, I learned about all the property taxes and their inheritance bad laws on my own without school

Mynameisbobby · Answer

Definitely coping skills with dealing with trauma and anxiety that goes with it.

art84 · Answer

Budgeting money like finances and how to save money.

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

Livelihood education. I guess that includes well-being as well

Alex8736 · Answer

I learned both book smarts and street smarts so I have no regrets

whistlingwh0res · Answer

computer programing, graphic design, cooking, cashier machine, stock market, investment, construction, interior design, fashion design,

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Budgeting, credit cards, etc

Jennz6 · Answer

Coping skills would have helped me a lot

Gabriel-Chicanito · Answer

The Welfare aid. ( That all that was just "help" )

tfan1 · Answer

Home EC especially cooking.

lolasmayona · Answer

How to file taxes

EaterPeter · Answer

Most of the above if not all

Spongebobssocks · Answer

All of the above

asphaltrhymes · Answer

If not budgeting, the food safety 👍👌😬

abc3643 · Answer

Physics and mathematics

Avicenna · Answer

Theoretical computer science

fonduegirl · Answer

We didn't have sex ed

Bricealan · Answer

ADD to that... DISCIP:INE

Anonymous · Answer

Do you really care?

clampfan101 · Answer

The first two seem the most practical.

Twalli · Answer

Nutrition would also be useful

exitseven · Answer

Trigonometry

AnusNdaPainus · Answer

How to sell my self.

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