Personally, I love learning new things and even text book education has sometimes intrigued me. Not being one of the 90+ mark achieving students in school, and having received judgemental scorns from family members about my average grades, I’ve had a thing or two to say about the school education I received. All rote and no learn was never my thing.
Anyway – on a lighter note, there are a LOT of things that school doesn’t teach us. Actually, those are the things that no one can teach us – we just have to step into the world and see its mysteries unravel. So here are the top-of-my-mind four things that I would have loved to be taught at school:
* Grades are just numbers. What really matters is what you absorb from the education you receive. Also, Calculus never helped me get a job – good thing that I sucked at it. Also, not being a prefect is no big deal. You cannot even put it on your resume without appearing obnoxious.
* Sometimes new clothes bleed (Especially if you bought them off a street vendor). Do not wash them with whites. A lot of outfits sacrificed in the practical learning process.
* Automobile technology and how to drive a car. If they did, I wouldn’t feel like an idiot every time some said ‘drive train’ or ‘turbo engines’ at work. Also I’d be driving myself to my favourite sunset point, starting from age 13! Adding to that, they should have mandatory plumbing classes – so that I wouldn’t have to Google – ‘how to fix a leaking cistern’ while living in Pune.
* Soft skills. Listening, delegation, a good handshake – the whole load of it, including table etiquette.
Without doubt, Pink Floyd knew what they were talking about.