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Re: widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education

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On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:46:42 +0200
abelard <abelard3@abelard.org> wrote:

> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9464155/Adults-wish-taught-life-skills-instead-academic-subjects-school-study-shows.html
> 
> 
> "It also emerged 83 per cent think ‘life skills’ programmes should be
> offered to kids[they mean ''children'!] at school - delivering
> knowledge about how to budget or start a business."
> 
> 
> 
> "TOP 20 THINGS PARENTS WISH THEY LEARNED AT SCHOOL
> 1. How to save money
> 
> 2. How to organize your finances e.g. budgeting
> 
> 3. How to invest money
> 
> 4. How to look after your mental health
> 
> 5. How tax works
> 
> 6. The importance of confidence
> 
> 7. How to cook everyday meals
> 
> 8. How to start a business
> 
> 9. How to buy a house
> 
> 10. How to create a CV
> 
> 11. How to present yourself at a job interview
> 
> 12. How Maths is used in real life
> 
> 13. How to step out of your comfort zone
> 
> 14. How to maintain a home
> 
> 15. How to speak publicly e.g. presentations
> 
> 16. How to change a car tyre
> 
> 17. How to put up wallpaper
> 
> 18. How to plaster over holes and cracks
> 
> 19. How to put up a shelf
> 
> 20. How to code"

Some of that stuff is unknowable, some is obsolete (cars don't come
with spare wheels now) or will be obsolete quickly (3, 8) and the rest
can be learned fairly easily, mostly by doing. I never learned any of
it at school, either, but in my day we could all read and write to a
reasonable standard on leaving primary school, so we were equipped to
learn almost anything. Oh, yes, we were given a few hints on 10 and 11
in the sixth form.

We could all do arithmetic in multiple number bases within one
calculation at eleven, as well.

China is trialling a digital currency with an expiry date, so also
forget 1.

-- 
Joe

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widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education abelard <abelard3@abelard.org> - 2021-04-13 15:46 +0200
  Re: widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-04-13 16:04 +0100
    Re: widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-04-13 16:49 +0100
      Re: widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education abelard <abelard3@abelard.org> - 2021-04-13 18:52 +0200
    Re: widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education Patrick Hearn <patrick.hearn39@gmail.com> - 2021-04-13 14:31 -0700
      Re: widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-04-14 20:58 +0100
        Re: widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education JNugent <jennings&co@fastmail.fm> - 2021-04-14 21:01 +0100
  Re: widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> - 2021-04-13 18:51 +0100
    Re: widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education abelard <abelard3@abelard.org> - 2021-04-13 20:10 +0200
      Re: widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-04-13 23:38 +0100
  Re: widespread dissatisfaction at schools' lack of practical education Francois Quesnay <francois.quesnay@zohomail.eu> - 2021-04-14 11:46 -0700

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