Because the Earth and it's inhabitants are dying don't you think a good step would be to alter the school curriculum to tech a few generations of children how to be more self sufficient and less reliant on outside sources. maybe we could teach medicine making, growing your own foods, building Earth friendly housing, solar and wind energy. Seems like everything we need we buy from Walmart and it falls aprt in no time at all. We buy medicines that do not work or are harmful to us. Why not make your own from the weeds growing in your back yard. Who said we all have to have perfectly manicured golf course looking lawns? The same companies that are selling us weed killers are selling us pills for our ills made from things out of the very plants (weeds) we are using their products to destroy. Let's change the curriculum. Maybe our children can save the planet if we do. And save themselves. Teach alchemy, teach coping skills, teach self sufficient housing and farming.
2007-08-09 07:44:51 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Some teachers are teaching some of this, but most have a strict curriculum to teach required to get the students to score well on standardized tests.
We must teach our own children and maybe a group like girl scouts could teach some of the skills you mention. Volunteer with children and start teaching!! (With parents' approval)
Also, we need new people on school boards and at even higher levels. People who are open to new things and new ideas, not trying to make all schools just like the one they went to 30-50 years ago, are needed to start making real changes.
I'd like them to teach more practical stuff too. What you mentioned plus how to pay bills, budget, be responsible, stay out of debt, how to deal with advertising--that would be a good one. . .
Much of our education system is a dinosaur and much of what we've done is to just continue what was done in the past. It is cheating the kids.
Don't wait for someone to do it, YOU ARE SOMEONE.
Live well and do good.
2007-08-09 08:29:47 · answer #1 · answered by gentlesoul 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice idea but the kids of today won't learn it unless it's on a CD with lots of car crashes and killing. They are not worried about the future because Mommy and Daddy didn't make them do anything and put out large sums of money for the games and consoles.
2007-08-09 08:30:57 · answer #2 · answered by sensible_man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My kids were taught as much of this as I could teach them.
But.......have you read the questions and answers from our youth on this site alone? What are the chances of teaching them anything that is not promoted by the marketers? Or that has anything but se..x to learn?
2007-08-09 07:54:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow, that is a great idea!
2007-08-09 07:54:01 · answer #4 · answered by Chelle Chelle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋