What compulsory subjects should be introduced into American schools to help them become better world citizens?

Question

What about these:

Understanding Different Cultures
World Geography
Accessing the World Media through the Internet
Tolerance of Other religions
Critical and Rational Thinking
History of US involvement on Foreign Soil and the Long Term Consequences
Assuming World Citzenship
World Environmental Concerns
US Media Studies

Please add your own thoughful suggestions

Answer 1

Respecting the laws of other countries.
Treating the citizens of a host country in a respectable manner.

Answer 2

I am so glad my school days are over. With all of the subjects I had like Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Geography, Art, Music, Gym class, etc... now I have to add all of the above. I forsee the school day being from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm with a one week break over the 4th of July.

How about we lazy Americans sit back and watch Jerry Springer and let the rest of the world have compulsory classes in learning how to cope and understand the simple American mind?

Answer 3

considering English language is already a international language, the assumption of understanding English is approximately communique in another country. If i choose for to communicate to somebody from Indonesia as an occasion it may be completed in a language that we the two understand. For the 2nd that language is English. It would not somewhat concerns whether you're a suited speaker as long as you could talk effectively. however that's authentic although that if a rustic has an excellent fluent English speaking inhabitants has greater reward than others. An occasion is eire. they could abolish English language in desire of Gaelic language that's their ancestral language yet they did no longer. the reason being money. a tremendous quantity of their comparatively cheap advance is by way of the fact they greater healthful with the English speaking international locations like England or u . s . a .. as an occasion there are American agencies that desire to deliver their account books in eire by using fact it somewhat is greater no longer expensive in eire and because they use the comparable language. obligatory or no longer, that's as much as the priorities of each united states of america and person person. If a rustic or someone thinks that there are greater advantageous factors than losses via making English obligatory, then why don't you?

Answer 4

I'm surprised to lean that you suggest to *introduce* World Geography. I didn't go to school in US. What, you guys don't have it? That's surprising. We have it for 4 years, it is actually fun. Yeah, that's a good one to have. It can include info on cultures, to some extent.

Critical and Rational thinking is supposed to be a part of all other subjects, like Math, Physics, History, Literature, isn't it? It is important to develop it, I agree. I think the way school teaches it - it concentrates too much on teaching a skill rather then developing the individual's ability to think.
I wish they taught us formal logic maybe as a part of math course.

Answer 5

More Foreign Languages, like Hindi, Arabic and Mandarin need to be introduced

Answer 6

Reproduction. Every aspect of it. Models like how waiting to have children can help reduce the population, and how children of parents who waited tend to be better off physically, emotionally and financially, and have a better chance in life over children of younger parents who have not gained as much wisdom, or financial responsibility.