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What Is School For Again?

1/5/2017

 
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There are lots of examples where school has failed entrepreneurs, who were clearly gifted to do something else. 
 
Less so, the examples of people who are doing okay, that have all the trappings of modern life.  A mortgage, a car lease, living pay-day to pay-day.
 
And for people that were disruptive at school, never did anything and ended up in prison?  Well that is obviously their fault, isn’t it?
 
The main things that school did not teach me that I will try to teach my kids:
  • Social skills can be learned.  And they are the most important thing to learn.  It does not matter if you are cleverer than everyone else around you.  If you do not have the skills to convince others and to bring them together, then you will be working for someone less clever than you who can.  And that might be a little crushing as all through your childhood you were told that getting good grades is the thing to aim for.
  • Learn how to teach yourself.  In the “real world” the only point of learning should be only to do something immediately practical.  And the faster you can learn and do, the more success you will have.  In fact, the real secret is do-to-learn and catch up on theory afterwards, if at all.
  • How to get financial freedom.  Earn more, use less, invest wisely quickly and often.
 
There are so many books that I have read in my adult life that I wish someone had given me at school.  Actually, that is a lie, because I would not have read them at school because school distilled in me a hatred for reading.  If the only point of reading is to take a test, to see if you can remember the same things as the person who wrote the questions, is it any wonder that we have a generation of people that only read fiction to fall asleep, or worse do not read at all.
 
What’s the best thing you learned after school that you think should be included?

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