10 Life Skills Students Should Be Taught in School
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10.
Proper Nutrition This is a big one, especially since food today
faces many issues which were absent just one or two generations ago.
Today much of our food is genetically modified and sprayed with harmful pesticides.
While countries in Europe are banning as well as publishing studies showing the potential
negative health/environmental effects of GMOs, North America is teaching children that GMOs
are necessary to combat climate change and global hunger.
The GMO debate aside, schools are littered with processed, unhealthy foods, featuring
vending machines filled with disease-causing sugar and cafeterias filled with junk food.
This not only contributes to the epidemics of obesity and disease which plague the Western
world, the United States in particular, but also sets children up for a lifetime of nutritional
deficiencies and poor eating habits.
Classes about proper nutrition and global food issues are woefully lacking in the education
system.
Even when they do exist — and are not mandatory, which they should be — they rely food guides
released by the government, which have been paid for by the food industry and whose recommendations
have been proven to be problematic.
Proper nutrition is obviously vital for children's mental stamina and focus and their emotional
and physiological health.
The bottom line is, school lunches today are setting kids up for a wide range of diseases
as they enter into adulthood.
We as a society are then paying both the literal and figurative costs of this neglect.
9.
Relationships Communicating your feelings without blaming
or judging each other; how to spot manipulative behavior and cut it off; personal boundaries
and not being a pushover; honest discussions about sexuality and how it relates (or doesn't
relate) to love; "Fuck Yes" consent and how the experiences of men and women differ.
Basically everything most of us learn by going through excruciating breakup after excruciating
breakup.
Because when you're in bed dying of nutsack cancer, you're not thinking about how Napoleon
got over-zealous in Russia or how the Meiji Restoration totally changed the face of Asian
geopolitics or how organic compounds are conspiring to make your brain rot.
You're thinking about the ones you've loved in your life and the ones you've lost.
Many things make for a happy life, but few things have as much influence and impact as
our relationships do.5 Learning how to not stumble through them like a drunken asshole
and how to exercise some conscious control of how you express your emotions and intimacy
is possibly the most life-changing skill set I've ever come across.
Because we're not just talking about how to get wifey'd and have sexy time.
We're talking about capital-R Relationships: how to be a good friend, how to not treat
your family like dog shit, how to deal with conflict at work, how to take responsibility
for your own emotions and problems and neuroses without dragging the rest of the world down
with you.
As humans, we are fundamentally social animals.
We don't exist in a vacuum.
We can't.
Our social bonds make up the fabric of our life.
The question is: are yours made of smooth silk or cheap polyester?
8.
Skepticism Pretty much anything good in life comes from
uncertainty or a state of not knowing.
Uncertainty is what drives you to become curious, to learn, to test new ideas, to communicate
your intentions to others.
It's what keeps you humble.
It helps you accept whatever comes along.
It allows you to see others without unfair judgments and biases.
Pretty much anything bad in life comes from certainty: complacency, arrogance, bigotry
and unfair prejudice.
People don't get together and form religious cults and then drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid
because they're uncertain about something.
They do it because they're certain.
Governments don't starve and murder millions of their own citizens because of uncertainty.
They do it because of certainty.
People don't fall into deep depression, obsessively stalk their ex, or shoot up a
school because they're uncertain about themselves.
They do it because they're certain.
They're certain in a belief that, like almost every other belief, is probably wrong.
Skepticism cultivates the ability to open yourself to alternatives, to withhold judgment,
to question and challenge yourself and make yourself a better person.
You don't actually know if Susy at work hates you or not.
You don't actually know whether your boss is a dick or just bad at communicating.
Maybe his wife has cancer or something and he stays up crying all night.
Maybe you're the dick and you don't know it.
You don't really know if gay marriage will ruin the fabric of society or whether men
and women really are so different or the same.
You don't know if that new job will make you happy, if getting married will fix your
relationship problems (I'm betting on "no"), or whether or not your kid really deserves
all those participation awards.
Life is lived in the uncertainties.
Our certainties are just strategies we use to avoid that life.
To avoid adapting and changing and flowing through it.
Because education and learning shouldn't end when the last textbook slams shut or when
the diplomas are handed out.
It should only end when we do.
7.
Fiction Writing Ask any elementary school student, and he
or she will affirm that making up stories is fun.
And since Stephen King is quite wealthy from doing so, education and practice in fiction
composition is not irrelevant to society.
College students across all majors admit that fiction writing courses, whether electives
or required, are among their very favorite.
After all, you finally get to write what you want to write, not some tedious, insipid essay
about how Holden Caulfield is some brooding intellectual, an essay thoroughly devoid of
anything interesting precisely because your teachers require you to examine the facts
and draw your conclusions like a robot.Hamlet can teach us a wealth about morality, human
nature, existentialism, and politics.
Shakespeare is showing us what happens if we give free rein to vengeance: our whole
lives and those of all who are close to us are destroyed.
When students in high school finish reading Hamlet—provided they have good teachers
who can help them understand and appreciate it—most of them are sufficiently enthralled
to try writing fiction—as well they should be.
But most of them give up when their first stories turn out to be less great than those
of Shakespeare.
This is not due to middling talent, but an absence of instruction in fiction writing.
6.
Filmmaking Let's face facts here.
The entertainment industry is getting larger and easier to get into so even if it's an
option to offer to students, it could help them achieve their dream job by giving them
an early education into the filmmaking industry.
Many public schools do offer drama classes as electives—but these usually focus on
stage performance.
As important as it is for any serious actor to know how to act in live shows, many of
these students would very much like to try their hands at making motion pictures, yet
don't have an outlet for it.A lot of high school students would love to be directors,
and most of them idolize Steven Spielberg.
He's about as close to god as you can get in Tinsel Town.
Spielberg did not formally study filmmaking until college.
But imagine how much faster he would have progressed in his filmmaking abilities, had
he been able to receive instruction in middle or high school.
To be fair, geniuses of his caliber are typically self-taught—but proper instruction from
a good teacher, along with diligent study, are far more reliable and desirable than raw
talent and trial and error.
For the mere mortals among us, enrolling in a filmmaking class in middle or high school
is the most logical choice if we wish to pursue the dream.
Such enrollment also offers us a fair chance of getting noticed by any of the bigwig connections
the instructor may have.
5.
Meditation This one really is a no brainer, and it should
be implemented into school curriculums for various reasons.
One of those reasons is health, and the benefits in this area are well established in scientific
literature.
An eight week study conducted by Harvard researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), for
example, recently determined that the brain will literally begin to rebuild itself in
just 8 weeks.
It's the very first study to document that meditation produces changes over time in the
brain's grey matter, and you can access that study and read more about it here.
Another example comes from a study conducted by researchers at John Hopkins.
They found that just eight weeks of meditation training was as effective as medication in
treating anxiety, depression, and pain.
According to The Art of Living, which is an educational and humanitarian movement engaged
in stress-management and service initiatives, these techniques could improve intuition,
enhance sensory abilities, improve awareness and foresight, increase confidence, remove
the fear of the unknown, and increase creativity and intelligence.
They've seen this through their own experience, and through the immense success of their program,
which could easily be replicated by schools.
4.
How to Survive Without Certain Technology.
Let's be honest, If another Y2K type situation was to happen with it actually wiping out
the use of existing electronics, we would all be screwed!
Okay but seriously With the advent and popularity of smartphones and e-readers, mechanical watches
and books are becoming rarer.
The first pocket watches were made with only one hand.
While this is antique, it is beneficial to know how to read modern analog clocks.
Watches that are "automatic" will never need a battery and will last hundreds of years
if taken good care of.
One benefit to reading paper books is that older books can still be read, which are usually
not in any e-reader form.
They can be borrowed, traded, and gifted.
They don't need to be charged.
They can be signed and annotated.
There are no update or platform or filetype incompatibilities.
I fear that the popularity of e-readers will mean that old books will cease to be read,
which will mean that we will be cut-off from our ancestors, which will mean the first generation
in history which will exist as an island, annexed from common traditional humanity in
many ways.
3.
Car Repair.
Much of the same about repairing and maintaining your home applies to repairing and maintaining
your automobile.
Regular maintenance can save on repair bills, such as changing the oil every so many miles.
Also, changing the oil and oil filter yourself is an additional way to save money.
Maintaining proper air pressure in the tires helps gas mileage to go farther, and knowing
how to change a tire can mean the difference between being stuck on the side of the road
or a momentary setback.
Repairs and maintenance are inevitable for anyone who drives a vehicle for any reasonable
length of time, and as such it would be helpful if these skills were taught to students, given
that quite literally almost everyone will encounter such issues.
Also, knowing which vehicle to buy and which to avoid, based on their performance and safety
ratings, and which holds the most resale value, are good things to know.
2.
Effective Communication We do not mean giving speeches and presentations,
although that certainly falls in this category.
I'm mainly talking about being able to clearly take what's in your head and to put it into
words so the other person clearly understands what you're saying the first time.
I mean let's be perfectly honest, When it came to doing our first job interview ever,
we've all been incredibly nervous (Here's the part where one person in the comments
says "NOT ME!").
Imagine how much easier it would be if we were taught effective communication in school
to prepare us for such situations like this?
I know that sounds simple, but I'm sure you've met people in the workplace who don't
take the time to prepare when they speak with you and as a result, waste your time talking
in circles when all you want to say to them is: "Can you take some time to think through
what you want to say and come back to me later with that?"
Communicating effectively is one of the most underrated, yet most powerful skills you can
develop.
The biggest part in communicating effectively is preparing what you want to say beforehand.
Keep it simple.
What's my point?
Why?
Prepare a good example.
Your best friend in communicating effectively are these two words: "For example".
Whenever you see a confused look on people's faces, your best response is leading with
those two words: For example.
When you do that AND follow up with a relevant example, it allows the other person to "frame"
what you're talking about to get a better idea of what it is.
Communicating effectively is one of THE MOST underrated and MOST valuable skills a person
can have.
And let me tell you on a personal level, there's nothing more refreshing than dealing with
people who take the time to prepare what they have to say and back it up with clear examples.
It's a very rare skill nowadays.
1.
Finance So let's us all be honest right now.
School for the most part…...Told us some useless crap!
"What are we learning today Teacher?
Oh good we're going to learn how to make awful cupcakes, Learn about photosynthesis
and about the battle of 1066! GOODY!"
Oh but when we're out of school, none of that stuff matters.
But you know what we could have learned about?
OUR FREAKING TAXES!
Every week or so, there always seems to be a new article in CNN, USA Today, or Yahoo
about young adults struggling with debt, whether it be from credit cards or loans in general.
High interest rates, hidden fees, not consolidating debt – these terms and concepts are mostly
unknown to young adults and because of that ignorance, they tend to make big errors in
judgment.
A prime example is thinking that they just have to pay the minimum on their balance and
not realizing that by doing so, they pay 2-3 times as much in the long run.
Alongside that, most young adults don't have a clue on how to invest their money.
They don't know what a Roth IRA account is, or a 401k, or the magic of compound interest,
the tax benefits associated with investing in these types of vehicles, etc.
There's a lot of specialized knowledge out there that young adults are not aware of on
when it comes to how they can invest their money and as a result, they frivolously spend
it away.
Credit score is another big thing.
A lot of young adults don't bother to check up on it to make sure there are no errors
with it.
Your credit score is your report card in the real world and it comes into play when you're
buying a car, renting your first apartment, and even when you're getting a job (most
employers are now checking credit scores to determine how responsible the candidate is).
Protect that at all costs.
Learn what drives your credit score down.
Learn what drives your credit score up.
Check up on it every now and then to ensure nothing is wrong with it.
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