what they teach in school needs to be changed to something that would be more helpful. I wasn't taught how to get a job but I can remember dissecting a frog. I wasn't taught how to pay taxes but I know loads about Shakespeare's classics
I was never taught how to vote , they devoted that time to defining isotopes.I wasn't taught how to look after my health but I know that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Never spent a lesson on current events instead forced into studying The Old American West. I was never taught what laws there are. I was not taught the laws for the country I live in but I know how Henry the VIII killed his women. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced ,beheaded, survived. i am Glad that's in my head instead of financial advice. I was shown the wavelengths of different hues of light but I was never taught my human rights. Apparently there's 30, do you know them? I don't. We should be able to recite them by heart but we never learned our own rights.
I know igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks.Yet I don't know anything about trading stocks Or how money works at all - where does it come from? Who controls it? How does the thing that motivates the world function? Never taught how to budget and disburse my earnings. I was too busy rehearsing cursive. Didn't learn how much it costs to raise a kid or what an affidavit is.instead I spent the days on what the quadratic equation is negative b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac over 2a. That's insane, that's absolutely insane. They made you learn that over basic first aid. i don’t know How to recognise the most deadly Mental disorders or diseases with preventable causes.How to buy a house with a mortgage if you could afford it because abstract maths was deemed more important than advice that could literally save thousands of lives. but it's cool, ‘cause now I could tell you if the number of unnecessary deaths caused by that choice was prime.They Never taught about present day practical medicines but I was told what the ancient hippocratic method is "I've got a headache, the pain is ceaseless ,what should I take? Maybe try some leeches?”.They could have discussed domestic abuse and get the facts or how to help my depressed friend with their mental state. No but learn mental maths because "you won't have a calculator with you every day!". They say it's not the kids, the parents are the problem Then if you taught the kids to parent that's the problem solved then. All this advice about using a condom but nothing for when you actually have a kid when you want one. I'm only fluent in this language , although the rest of the world speaks two. They chose the solar over the political system.So like a typical citizen now I don't know what I'm voting on , which policies exist or how to make them change. So at 18, you are expected to elect a representative for a system you had never ever ever been presented with. But I won't take it I'll share it everywhere how I was "educated" and insist these pointless things be changed to something more relevant.