School Curriculum

Randy

Randy

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I was having am interesting discussion with a friend last night who has quite a successful You Tube channel over in America about school curriculum and he asked a valid question.

Should finance and all things money related be taught in secondary schools as part of the curriculum? Should more 'real world' lessons be taught in secondary schools? Is now the time to give the school curriculum a total refresh to bring it bang up to date with the world today?

On a personal level I find it staggering that when I was on school for example, you spent more time learning Shakespeare than learning how to budget accordingly. Also adding letters together in algebra, which I've yet to find a real world use for.


Thoughts?
 
Algebra is used in everyday life, we don’t use it consciously, it’s more unconscious because we learn it at school
 
Randy said:
I was having am interesting discussion with a friend last night who has quite a successful You Tube channel over in America about school curriculum and he asked a valid question.

Should finance and all things money related be taught in secondary schools as part of the curriculum? Should more 'real world' lessons be taught in secondary schools? Is now the time to give the school curriculum a total refresh to bring it bang up to date with the world today?

On a personal level I find it staggering that when I was on school for example, you spent more time learning Shakespeare than learning how to budget accordingly. Also adding letters together in algebra, which I've yet to find a real world use for.


Thoughts?
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"Adding letters together". It's learning the fundamental basics of working out how to calculate anything. You'd certainly need it to say create a balance sheet of your incoming and outgoings.

Regarding finance lessons in school - yes - but i could only see it being sucessful to quite a basic level as kids won't use more grown up pricnipals around mortgages, pensions etc etc until they're older. Maybe as a required additional option with college courses may work better.
 
Financial awareness, budgeting and most importantly saving! All should be taught, young people make their key mistake very early in their earning career.
 
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Osboro said:
Financial awareness, budgeting and most importantly saving! All should be taught, young people make their key mistake very early in their earning career.
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We had home economics when I was at school, no idea what was taught though, only the girls did it, all the boys were in metal and wood work classes.
 
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I did calculus in school and later at university. I thought to myself, where am I ever going to need to work out the area under the crust of a loaf of bread. I then worked at ICI and used it every day.

Hate to repeat myself, I say repeat myself. Politics!
 
Centralscrutinizer said:
We had home economics when I was at school, no idea what was taught though, only the girls did it, all the boys were all in metal and wood work classes.
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I did home economics at school and was the only boy. When I went out at playtime - it was a double lesson- I had my pinny on whilst the other lads had their leather smocks on from metal work.

they took the **** until home time when I had a tin of flapjacks with me and they had a crappy boot scraper, all change at that point.

Also I shared a kitchen with Kim Carling and got all the girl gossip
 
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