Posts » What we should be taught
From time to time I come across an essential skill no one ever taught me and I start to wonder why schools don’t teach it. Here’s the growing list of those:
- how to express one’s needs;
- how to listen to people;
- how to explain concepts effectively;
- how to be assertive;
- how to respond to criticism;
- how to know one’s value;
- how not to jump into conclusions to early;
- how empathy benefits us all;
- how to take care of oneself;
- how to live with others on good terms;
- how relationships work and fall apart;
- how to make peace not war (on any level);
- how to deal with getting older;
- how to be open-minded;
- how to build happiness;
- how (almost) everything in daily math can be calculated using proportions;
- how to figure out skills one is good at and to practice them to earn for living;
- how to be an useful part of the human society,
- how to raise kids so they benefit from all these values;
- (and finally my fav) how to be better at learning.
<sarcasm>Now I know it’s better to let people figure it all out while having stressful jobs, kids to raise, and mortgages to repay in a rat-race through life.</sarcasm>
But honestly I would like to see most of it taught at school instead of useless stuff we are now.