What They Don't Teach at School

When I was young we trusted the educational system and thought
that it was enough to gian all the  knowledge one needs to
have for the adult life. Maybe that’s because the educational
system was much better back then… or maybe it’s because we were
extremely naive… I don’t know.


Now, I start really disliking schools. I have a feeling that most
of the important things are not taught there. Besides that in the
times when the access to information and knowledge is  just
few keystrokes away I don’t see the value schools bring so much…


When I talk to people and complain about the schools I am also
trying to explain what I wish I was taught there and what I wish
I knew back then… 


So I decided to share those with you today.


I wish that instead of teaching what one should do in life and
what is wrong and right they taught us to follow our
dreams… Unfortunately most of us forget about our
childhood dreams by the time we grow up.  But maybe that
would not happen if we were told that dreams and  adult life
could co-exist and that childhood dreams are not necessarily
incompatible with the real life. I meet so many people, who wish
they were doing something else instead, who still recall the
dreams they had in the past and regret that they never even tried
to make them happen.


Schools concentrate so much on the pragmatic thinking that
sometimes we end up thinking that dreaming is stupid… dreaming
big becomes sign of being immature and as a result many of us end
dreaming  altogether…


Well you know what? All that is a bullshit! I am more than
certain that we all need to dream. Always! No matter how old we
are. Dreams should be part of our life and I wish someone told
that to me at school, so that is why I am telling you this now.
Follow your dreams so instead of regrets or dreamless life you’ll
end up being excited.


The other wrong misperception we have is that if we study well we
will get a guaranteed success. But that’s not true at all. Only
the academic knowledge is not enough… there is so much more you
need to have. You gotta have emotional
intelligence, which is not taught in any school yet. You
need to have a certain unique personality and no one can teach
you how.


So what do we learn at school apart from the academic stuff? Well
we are told the standard life scenario… we are brought up to
think that the right way is to study well. to graduate and get
into university. After that we have to find a job, climb the
career leather, get married, buy a house, have kids….  What
they don’t tell us in school is that there is a choice - and the
choice is not simply studying well and being successful and rich
or study poorly and be poor and unhappy as they imply.


They should teach at schools that there is always a choice and
most importantly there is a choice of NOT following the
crowd.


And that leads me to the next thing I wish they taught… children
at school should learn that if not awesome than at least


[spp-tweet "it is ok to be different."]


I went to school in times when the Soviet Union still existed.
Back then any kind of differentiation (not only at schools, but
everywhere else) was punished. We were supposed to dress, think
and behave the same way… all of us. Maybe that is why I love the
fact that I can no longer hide the fact that I am different and
love being that way.


I also wish that children at school were told that one
does not necessarily have to work for someone else and
that it’s a choice too. I believe that there are people who do
not need to ever create a CV and who should start their own thing
straightaway. Yes, I agree that the entrepreneurship is not
for...