8 vital skills that are not taught in school

Every year on the first day of September, anxious parents dress their children in the form of a brand new, hand bell and a bouquet of flowers sent to gnaw granite science school. Each of them is hoping that if you repeat this ritual for 10 years, as a result he will receive back harmoniously developed, well-rounded personality, ready to enter the adult a life. However, whether this is in fact so? How young people spend as much as 10 years of his life to study, prepared for the real world?

I have about this highly questionable. No, I'm not opposed to a detailed study of the intricacies of chemical reactions, trigonometric theorems and all, without exception, the laws of thermodynamics, do not think. But these academic knowledge, our children often did not have time to learn about real-life tasks that they all, without exception, will meet immediately after the discharge ring. Here is just a brief list of them.

computers

What is taught in schools under the code name "Informatics", only with a very large can hardly be called a real and actual rate of computer literacy. Instead of giving useful knowledge and, most importantly, practical experience in the use of digital technologies for solving everyday problems in school are taught motley hodgepodge of theoretical knowledge of abstract and antiquated workshops. The result is graduates who only know how to run your favorite game (unless, of course, there is a shortcut on the desktop) and open the page in the "Classmates" and "VKontakte".

time management

The most valuable and the only irreplaceable resource is our time. Accordingly, the ability to manage this resource is vital to any person, regardless of his future job. No, then you can, of course, catch up with the help of numerous books on time management and increasing rates productivity, but maybe the primary skills of effective use of their time, it's better to give directly to the school?

learning to learn

The main skill that must have a modern graduate - is the ability to learn. Modern technologies are changing the world so rapidly that the old ways of knowing is no longer valid. Today, instead of the stubborn memorization of various facts is much more important to know where and in what way they can get faster. Today, the skills of interaction with the search string and the rapid development of large amounts of information need much more than the memorized pages of school textbooks.

money management

Are there many of our graduates themselves can sort out the bank loan conditions, the intricacies of drawing up the household budget, or at least competently use a bank card? Yes, very soon they will learn this on their own experience and mistakes, but maybe better in math class instead of dividing apples and diggers and give such tasks? Or even to introduce a special course of financial literacy?

survival skills

We often talk about softness, and the inability of our children, and it really is true in many respects. No one wants to bring up from the usual boy or a girl the more steel Rambo, but sometimes the possession of even the most basic skills of survival greatly simplifies life. First aid, organization of everyday life and food in field conditions, the basics of navigation, breeding fire and search for water - all these skills should be taught to children, and not in the classroom, and on practice.

Negotiations and discussions

We all my adult life, and only committed to negotiate and engage in discussions. Very often, the ability to persuade and to prove his point of view, it means much more than the light head, the knowledge or the skillful hands. After all, no accident chiefs are often those who have a lot and speaks well, but not those who work a lot. Nevertheless, the art of rhetoric and negotiation do not learn in school, even though it would not hurt.

mental health

Russia ranked first in Europe in the number of child suicides. In this sad statistics contains the answer to the question about the necessity of the presence in the school curriculum of any subject that teaches to be happy. In adolescence, a person is particularly susceptible to problems, stress, depression, so that the lesson of mental health in schools is vital. If there are lessons for physical health, why there are no lessons for mental health promotion?

How to find a job

Perhaps this is the most important skill that should be taught in high school. Tens of thousands of happy graduates leave their hearth and home to confidently and boldly take a step... Where?

That's the question, and should give an answer already in school. How to write your CV, how to behave during a job interview, how to fill out the questionnaire and not be nervous before an important test - all of these skills will be useful to many immediately after the last call. So why not teach them in school?

And what are the important subjects and courses would be, in your opinion, are useful in the modern school? What is even better to teach our students for the school desk, and not by their own trial and error?