Did you ever have this thought in mind while going through school:

WHY ARE THEY TEACHING THIS?

Well, perhaps at that moment, you didn’t think of this question since school is *supposed to be* a place where you do what you are told. Well, at least in primary school. Then, in high school, you were taught more complex and advanced stuff that it made your head spin. From this point on, you would have started to realize that much of the stuff taught in school will never ever be used in your entire life.

For me, those “stuff” will be calculus (yes, simultaneous equations, differentiation, integration, and the like), technical work (as in, metal work, wood work, handling tools, etc.), and chemistry.

Schools want to be sure that they covered all grounds (but according to who?). This type of education is “just-in-case” education.

What a grand waste of youth!

Now, on hindsight, I’d have preferred lessons on:

• Relationships (how to find my life partner, how to deal with people)
• Finance (i.e. how to earn, manage, and grow my money)
• Making good decisions and choices (i.e. how to think)
• Health and Fitness (living with energy and free from illnesses)
• Career and jobs (finding them and doing well in them)
• Emotions (how to manage them)
• How to care for and bring up children (yes, most people do want to be parents eventually)
• Sex (what to do and how to do them)

Aren’t these what we need on a daily basis as human beings?

Aren’t these more important than mathematics, history and chemistry?

Yet, why is it that school don’t teach such things at all?? And they simply leave us to figure them out ourselves by trial and error. They assume that because you have completed secondary education or tertiary education, you’d have no problems with these areas in life.  Why is it that such vital life issues are treated as trivial matters by our society?