Why don't schools teach us the important things in life?

Question

They don't teach how to start and maintain meaningful relationships.
Most don't teach safe sex.
They don't teach how to save and invest money.
They don't teach how to compose music or direct movies.

All they care about is Math, English, Science, and History. All are nice but by themselves aren't enough.

Answer 1

Maybe because if they did, what place would there be in this world for parents? Certainly we must also be responsible for teaching our children something? I'd MUCH rather have me teach my child some things rather than have it taught in a school. We can't possibly allow for schools to teach them everything!

Answer 2

Schools do, but it is the Basics to get One started in Life.....Not plot out their life for them.
English introduces You to True love - Shakespeare, Yeats, etc.
Milton and Dante teach the effects of unlicsenced/unlimited sex (Paradise Lost and Inferno).
Money? Again, as an example, Shakespeare - "Neither a Borrower nor a Lender be".
Composing "Good" Music or Directing "Good" films is what makes those individuals great. Not everyone can write a "Rhaspody in Blue" as Gershwin did.......
But most anyone can rhyme cat, fat, bat and call it a Hip hop song.
Schools teach the basics. Your Parents taught You to walk...They didn't tell you which path to take from there. That was Your choice.

Answer 3

Sorry.
I disagree with your argument completely.
The facts are, kids don't learn as much as they are supposed even about the main subjects that you have listed.
I wouldn't presume for an entire second that they are not being taught about safe sex, making Friends or relationships.
That's what high school is all about. Correct me if i am wrong, but that's what all the kids an high school are really there for.
Socialization is the main key to a public school. Must kids ignore everything they learn except for english and math.
If you asked most graduating high schoolers, "Why does the earth spin on it's axis?" I would be surprised if any one of them came up with the correct answer. How do I know this, I went to school. I got out of school and realized, after 12 years of school i had learned simple "ALGERBRA".
12 years (!!!) of my entire life and i had learned hardly anything in history, nothing in science that was not common knowledge, the main things that i had learned how to do was read and write. Must kids nowadays know how to read and write at the age of five.
I told myself "Something is wrong here."
In the first six years of school one thing that a child learns is basic mathematics.
At a class even devoting 40 Min's a day to math, that's only 120 hours of math the whole year. That's about five days a year?
I realized that in five days of on going mathematical training with a child they can easily learn addition and subtraction.
So why are the children of today taking kindergarten,1st, 2ND, and even 3rd grade, and only learning basics math.
If you have a child ask him what he has learned in those three years?
I myself have learned, that school is not for education it is for socialization.
I can only hope that parents start to see what hidden plan lay's under todays education.

Answer 4

Since schools do not teach you anything important, I wonder how you are capable of using the internet. Let alone writing your thoughts.

Sex should be taught at home! Nature created it for one purpose,
to bring new life not to be fun and games as so many has made it.

Schools teach math and sciences so that you can reason and improve your understanding. It does not take 10th grade math to figure out that if you have $1.00 and you spend $1.00, you will not have any dollars.

So what were you doing in math class? Your grade? Did you skip out as soon as you could?

Relationship? That is a subject on morality! Guess where we get our laws governing morality? Would you believe the Bible?
Try reading it some time. It covers every faucet of human interaction from visitors, business ethics, SEX, parental, wars, friends, enemies all of it. OOPs, we thru the bible out of school,
so here we have, in this forum, males asking females, which one of their breasts is the largest, 14 year old asking for public sex, and you, not wanting to take responsibility for your own inactions, trying to waif off on schools?

Two things you have not done learn what the teachers were trying to teach you and listen to your parents.

Have to add two more, take responsibility for your actions and inactions, and you did not attend church!

And if you are looking for someone to fix your issues, ten years from now, you will type this same crap over again.

Answer 5

They don't teach about relationships because it's a touchy topic these days, with parents being divorced and politically correctness...

They do teach safe sex.

They do teach how to save and invest money- home ec.

They do teach how to compose music- marching and concert band.

I learned how to edit and basics about shooting movies, and some good equipment in H.S.

Try extra-curricular activities.

Answer 6

Yea, they could teach stuff that would be A LOT more helpful down the road then what they actually teach. I laugh how in our Grade 7 Social class, we learn stuff about the early aboriginals, the settlers, etc..etc. I honestly couldn't care less about that stuff and I don't see how it helps later on. If you were looking for a career along those lines they would teach you the same thing a 100 over in university anyways.

Answer 7

Uh ... starting and maintaining a relationship and money tacticts are something you learn during the course of your life through experience! High schools DO teach safe sex and music composition/directing. Schools teach the basic things you need in life, things you need to know to CONTINUE learning. L4earning doesn't stop when you get out of school. You shouldn't expect to go to school and come out of it knowing everything about everything, it's really naive to think that.

Answer 8

Personally, it depends on the school you're in. I came from two different high schools and comparing them made me realize that my latter choice of school taught me a lot before graduation. Not only was I able to ace scores, mingling with the teachers and the head departments not only made me smarter academically, I also get to learn a lot about the outside world. Simply talking to them and hanging out even in just a short span of time could do a lot to your intellect. I suggest transferring to a better and more stress-free school, get to know the teachers and befriending them. Trust me, you'd learn more than what the school really has to offer.

Answer 9

Nobody can teach you the important things in life except yourself, schools just help you get to the beginning. You can't live life blaming others for what you should do or have done yourself. Now, get out there and do it. The library is a good place to start. Teachers teach you how to read, you have to decide what you think is worth reading, and read it. Etc, etc. Unnerstan?

Answer 10

Without all the basic foundations, how would you be able to understand anything? Without English, would you be reading this right now? Without math, would you be able to calculate the best deals when you buy things? Without Science, how would you maintain a garden or to take care of your pets? Even making meals is a science! Without history, where will our future be?