• plumbus@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Insisting things like tax returns or household maintenance should be taught in school.

    The goal of Education is not to train you to fit into the system you happen to grow up in, but should provide the foundation (litaracy, STEM, art …) and awaken the curiosity in yourself to become lifelong learner. That will develop society, and not a bunch of drones doing their tax returns and changing tires every season.

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      1 year ago

      The most important thing you can learn, is how to learn. One of the things that most upsets me is when I hear someone say they can’t do something “because no one ever taught me how”. It’s not your teachers/parents job to teach you how to do everything under the sun.

      Ignorance is nigh-inexcusable in today’s society, with so many sources of information at our fingertips. That’s where the “poorly educated” part comes in for me - folks who don’t know how to search for and evaluate information.

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      At minimum; school should give you the tools to be able to figure out how to do taxes/basic house maintenance/etc. But also, sometimes people need a little extra help; and we should have some sort of system to help people learn those things.

    • SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org
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      Those are foundational skills like math and reading. Accounting exists and mechanical repair exists. They aren’t teaching you those specific fields.

    • pickelsurprise@lemmy.loungerat.io
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      I mean it would also help if we had a functional tax system in the US that wasn’t deliberately made overly complicated to encourage people to pay for tax filing services.