On the good school
summarizing what a good school should teach
2025-11-09 12:00
// updated 2025-11-09 14:39
// updated 2025-11-09 14:39
Students spend so much time in schools (sometimes even more time than they do with family), yet the following seem to escape the minds of many young people:
- use basic tools
- save money
- investing and risk
- purify water
- grow food
- cook food
- make and repair clothes
- build shelter in case of emergency
- plan for common major life events
- funerals
- weddings
- critical thinking about the law and taxation
- reading at least two differing opinions on a news story
- how to leverage technology to learn almost anything
Schools should also teach students about:
- the world's cultural groups
- the basics of major world languages
- or rather, how to learn new languages without getting into specifics
...but encourage them to have mindfulness that dividing people into groups should help in understanding, rather than providing a reason for conflict!