What's the one thing they never taught you in school?

how to be nice,h0w to think,how to handle differet situation in real life. no more formula,no more recitement,no more vocabulary. i think the most important thing in the world is wisdom.be wise and everything will be A-okey.

I think all schools should have a class for necessary life skills. How to manage a checking account, how to budget money, how to look for work from writing a resume thru giving a successful interview, how to cook, etc. They could call the class "The Business of Life".

They did not teach me how hard it would be once we got out of school. They didn't teach us how to really know how to go out and make it on our own to pay bills and set a budget for ourselves. We learn on our own.

Brilliant discussion zandi. I can't help thinking school in general does teach children a lot of needless info..Yes I think kids do need a maybe well rounded exposure to subjects, but all school curriculums seem to lack simple basic life issues, even something as simple as stress management. They are finding that more and more kids do face a lot of stress, more than say when I was a kid, and yet kids don't know how to handle stress or anxiety issues...is it any wonder then why maybe some kids develop behavior problems as they don't know how to cope? Also a good introduction is needing in showing and teaching kids how to manage money, if they did have such teaching tools, maybe once that child is then the adult could manage money better

I have been asking this same question for many years. Some of the things taught in schools have nothing to do with what we will need to use or do in the world. And making schools a pressure/push to learn and move on environment does not encourage kids to learn or remember anything. School can be enjoyable as well as a place to learn. And more classes involving things of interest that they can use would be great. And maybe more kids would actually enjoy going to school if that happened!

Hi there. I think schools should have a class that teaches people how to be polite and more tolerant of others because I have encountered a lot of rude and overly judge mental, people in my life, so I think they should have a class for that.

moght help to ake them to the streets and sort of point out what people are doing go to the ruff part od town see the homeless maybe even talk to them to find out why they are where they went wrong to be there. Or if not that there are alot of movies on self help and all that they could watch

AGREE... tats why i take school stuff a pinch of salt and gets more interested by other achievement outside school.

The most important things in life that I should have learned in school, I learned on my own. I did not learn how to write a check, open a bank account, or do my taxes in school but they are all things that everyone has to do. School is almost useless. They teach things that you will never use but omit the things that you need. Doesn't make sense.

Hello,Zandi! In the school and college our teachers had taught us everything that we require to live a happy life.This knowledge we utilise in our daily life for earning our livelihood.thanx.

hi zandi wellI think to begin with if kids would buckle down and get those good grades from 1st grade on to 12th grade, a lot of their problems in life wou ld not be such problems. you need math, you need geography, you need science, you need foreign language, you need to learn English and how to write a decent article,you actually do need the classes they teach. but a lot of kids think it is smart to just goof off and slide along with cs at best or even d's as all think it is a badge of honor to hate schooll well its not. sure they could have some classes on life skills but if the kids dont study and learn it because they think it makes them bigger in the eyes of their friends, the class will do them no good at all. When I went to college I was shocked at how many remedial classes therewere for kids who messed up in English and Math, now you cannot tell me that these two are not important in life. so a kid has to want to learn any class that is offered, and if he doesnt put forth the effort now he will pay for it when he goes ou t to find a job. lol lol lol

You know, the standard teaching method is geared toward only one learning style, therefore, they only reach a small percentage of students anyway. Just thought I'd throw that in there. My high school was more concerned with appearance then anything else. Education came second. My principals actually walked around with a ruler to measure how long your shirt tale was. The teachers were constantly spending their teaching time nagging about gum and shirts and this and that then they did actually teaching. So yeah, I agree, it could definitly be more useful. I was well educated in tuning people out and breaking rules but as far as useful information...no, not at all. My kids do not go to the same schools as I did I would rather home school them than send them there. It seems like they have lost their focus on important issues these last few years. Maybe not everywhere, but in my town definitly...

i believe that not everything is taught and learned in school. Most of the time, what you learn in school or what is taught to us in school, is not practical in our daily living. say for example, in school it is taught that we are not supposed to smoke, but when you look around you, people smoke! c'mon!

They never taught me that stupid high school popularity contests don't matter at all in the real world. I spent my high school years totally miserable because I wasn't able to be the star of the football team, instead of enjoying the time that I had with my friends. Now, thinking back on it, I miss high school. I'm in college now, and I spent so much time socializing I have more friends than I will ever have the time to hang out with. Am I complaining? No. Do I endorse this lifestyle? Definitely not. It's hard, but I just wish that my school had taught me the importance of being who you are.

I feel that they never really taught us tu stand up on our own feet. They taught us how to listen to our teachers and stuff, but they dind't really teach individuality in school. they probably feared that too much individuality would means that people did not work well enough in groups.

Actually, there was a time when the purpose of the basic curriculum taught in schools (i.e., English, Math, Science, Economics, History, Current Events, to name a few of the basics)was to teach students how to use their minds to relate to the world around them. Once a person knew how to do things like thinking, calculating, formulating ideas, understanding the nature of life both past and present, they were then able to better relate to life itself. Then with the help of their parents and other family members, they could then draw conclusions for themselves and begin to learn how to make informed decision about choices in life. In other words, the purpose of education use to be the process of supplying us with the proper and necessary tools and once we received these tools, we then applied this knowledge toward learning about life ourselves. Unfortunately, my understanding is that the school system has changed considerably so that much of what is now taught may be irrelevant to the growth and development of our young. I say we go back to basics and teach youngsters how to properly use their minds so that with the help of their families, they can experience the wonderful joy of discovering for themselves about the world around them.