Things you wish they taught you at school

[zupermaus]

Ya know the score. School gears you up to enter the adult world.

Or not in my experience.

Things I wish Id been taught (not in the playground, in lessons by trained experts) whether out of interest or executive need.
It woulda saved me a lot of time and learning -the -hard-way:


1. How to break up with someone.
2. How to ask someone out.
3. How to kiss.
4. How to get out of a fight.
5. How to fight.
6. Public speaking
7. How to drive (like in American schools)
8. How to lie convincingly.
9. What to do if the world ends and what mushrooms/ berries do I need?
10. How to make fire without a bic lighter (hey, just out of curiosity).
11. How to ask for a pay rise.
12. How to cut one's own hair.
13. Parkour / skateboarding / surfing
14. How to handle drunk people when youre stone cold sober.
15. How to hide being drunk when everyone else is stone cold sober.
16. Foreign swearwords.
17. How to get over a relationship.


Other things I wish schools would teach kids, how to be NICE to your fellow person, international culture studies, psychology.

 

[sonick]

How to ******* BE ON TIME.

Ferchrissakes, I am surprised how many people in my generation have absolutely no urgency for time... I am ALWAYS the one that is on time or 5 minutes early, and everybody else is ALWAYS 5 minutes late.

 

[itsstillmatt]

We learned all of those in school except for how to make fire.

 

[dboll]

I wish schools taught some sort of financial responsibility to students. It seems today I see and hear about every other young person I know being drowned in debt and lving paycheck to paycheck. Our younger generation really needs to learn how to better manage our money. We can't always get everything we want.

 

[Piobaire]

Originally Posted by sonick

How to ******* BE ON TIME.

Ferchrissakes, I am surprised how many people in my generation have absolutely no urgency for time... I am ALWAYS the one that is on time or 5 minutes early, and everybody else is ALWAYS 5 minutes late.

Pretty much what I was going to say but more encompassing. "Job skills." I notice many government agencies, community based programs, etc., need to teach "job skills." WTF? "If your shift starts at 8a, be there at 7:55a ready to work."

Also, how to balance your finances such that the inputs are larger than the outputs or employ the sentence, "I can't afford that at this time."

 

[Nouveau Pauvre]

Originally Posted by zupermaus

1. How to break up with someone.
2. How to ask someone out.
3. How to kiss.
4. How to get out of a fight.
5. How to fight.
6. Public speaking
7. How to drive (like in American schools)
8. How to lie convincingly.
9. What to do if the world ends and what mushrooms/ berries do I need?
10. How to make fire without a bic lighter (hey, just out of curiosity).
11. How to ask for a pay rise.
12. How to cut one's own hair.
13. Parkour / skateboarding / surfing
14. How to handle drunk people when youre stone cold sober.
15. How to hide being drunk when everyone else is stone cold sober.
16. Foreign swearwords.
17. How to get over a relationship.


That's about all I learned in MD public school. Kind of wish I had learned some acamdemic **** as well. Oh well.

 

[zupermaus]

^yep that reminds me, that Buddhist orgasm-for-an-hour technique. Would be nice.

I imagine the world would be a far more peaceable place if they taught you that.

 

[clarity]

Most of that stuff was taught in school, just not part of the regular curriculum if you get what I'm saying.

 

[edmorel]

I wish I had been told/taught the wonders of cunn/analingus back then, so many years passed before I got on board and I feel like I missed so many wonderful opportunities.

 

[Thomas]

Originally Posted by edmorel

I wish I had been told/taught the wonders of cunn/analingus back then, so many years passed before I got on board and I feel like I missed so many wonderful opportunities.

Thank God we have you. You're like the Johnny Appleseed of ass-licking.

FWIW - I practiced it long before I joined SF.

 

[Caomhanach]

Well for starters we need to teach the teachers. I have had wonderfull teachers, most who came from real world careers in the military, park service, diplomatic corps and even a retired priest. And then there are the embodiment of 'those who can't, teach' who through design ( Avoiding the Vietnam draft) or simply recognising a safe gig went from professional student to a kind of super professional student. I rejected teaching after countless wearisome idiots who thought a degree in one field and autocratic rule in a stale air classroom merited a 24/7 laurel garland of insight into every other human pursuit, outright intellectual theft of graduate papers and the fairer sex as a personal spawning ground. These are the 'Happy Few' who enter college level positions and reciprocate with Little Eichmann manifestos. Below that, and the average teacher finds carrying a handgun as neccessary as a roll book and wakes up one day to learn the guy collecting his garbage makes more money.But America, the America of capital doesn't care, not when they can contract overseas workers to either learn fake southern drawls and check the weather report daily for Biloxi or come here with job packages the domestic slob can only dream of while competting with aliens for the crumbs. This is WHY they don't teach firemaking. Somebody just might burn the place down when that degree proves unmarketable and unvalued.

 

[Reggs]

How to, um, like, speak english...dude.

 

[Douglas]

Originally Posted by Piobaire

Pretty much what I was going to say but more encompassing. "Job skills." I notice many government agencies, community based programs, etc., need to teach "job skills." WTF? "If your shift starts at 8a, be there at 7:55a ready to work."

Also, how to balance your finances such that the inputs are larger than the outputs or employ the sentence, "I can't afford that at this time."

Funny given our discussion in CE... I was going to say "How to build a budget."

 

[greekonomist]

Economics. Everyone should be made to take economics.

 

[CoconutBanana]

Originally Posted by greekonomist

Economics. Everyone should be made to take economics.


I 100% agree with this.