"What's the Purpose of School? "
http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2009/02/whats-purpose-of-school.html
The author asked the question "what's the purpose of school?" he said we know what education is for, the government told us. Education is about covering the standards, aiming for the good grades on government test, improving and competition. He's been ask many question and now that he thinks about them, his answer aren't the predictable answers like "The purpose of education is to prepare our children for their future." But now his answer is "The purpose for education is to make the world a better place," his answer change when think about his experience and how much people have changed.
Seth Godin's list on the purpose of school was longer and it seems like it had no importance at all but when you add them all together, it seems like school is a distraction for us children not to see the real world until it's time but in the end they train us so that we become useful humanoids. School gives us something to do while our parents are working and give us a desire, those kind of things create feelings and experience inside of us making grow in both a positive and negative ways so school is like a risk.
8 Essential Skills They Didn’t Teach You In School
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/8-essential-skills-they-didnt-teach-you-in-school.html
The things we are learning may not be so important, it's just fairy tale told either long or short but the point of the story is the lesson learned. In school the thing they want us to learn most are the skills. Improving in your daily work is improving the skill. The first skill is testing whether you are capable to reaching to others around you. This builds up confidence and trustworthiness as well as giving your impression to your audiences. The second skill is speed in reading, in the future the job that you decide will probably require reading, the less time it takes for you to read, the more time you have for yourself. Skill #3 is learning to set a goal and managing your time, making sure you finish everything before hand so that you know you have accomplish something for the day rather than waiting til the end to get everything done. The 4th skill is reading financial statement, schools don't really focus on this part enough. The 5th skill is to learn to negotiate, use contracts, and not get taken advantage of, being able to do everything on your own is great but you are bound to be force to work with other people, teachers can never help you here since people are lying that they did something or they are looking through their notes. There aren't enought teachers in the world to have the skill to know when a kid didn't do any work at all. Save and Invest is the next skill though we haven't learn much about this topic either. Being successful in life is the 7th skill, not many people know what they want to do with their life. We say we want to do this but do we end up doing the things we want to do? Our goals aren't big enough sometimes, a goal like getting a job, what will we do with our life after accomplishing that goal. Last skill is spreading an idea and basic marketing, just convince some people to help you out and see how it works out.
Preparing students for Their Future
http://www.leadered.com/pdf/Preparing%20Students%20for%20Their%20Future%206-05.pdf
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