Why don’t they teach you to be a good person in school?

As I grow older I seem to be understanding/learning/reasoning things better, and I left school many years ago. So that straightaway proves the fact that one never stops learning, whether in school or not.

I was never into studying much, even though I was reasonably intelligent which was in my genes. I remember my school fondly because of memories with my classmates and all the fun we had over all the years doing things together. A very less portion of that fun included studying together, and the few times we did was in pretense, so that we could actually have more fun.

I’ll come back to the point I deviated from, why dont they teach the valuble things in school that we really need in this world to survive?

Like..how to be kind, stay calm, find strength in times of hardship, to respect each other and ourselves, stay positive…and all

What is the point if I am a great coder, but I have very little manners? Or that I constantly want to step on peoples toes because I believe that competetion means everything, and everything means I have to win all the time.

Humans are actually rather innocent, the beliefs they live by are usually those that were drilled into their head when they were too little to know better. And yet they never forget it, which means that we must teach important lessons of life like peace, love, kindness, mercy, forgiveness etc very early, and at schools.

Not to discount any subject, but all those that I studied I never use. I have never needed algebra at the grocery store, or called salt soduim chloride.

That was my little outburst at subjects that bored the hell out of me, and I would rather prefer they taught me about being kind to animals, or how I should talk to people when I converse, so that I can control my tone when talking to a stranger, and when I really can do without a confrontation.

I know that many will say that it is the responsibility of parents to teach those things to children, and I do not disagree and I am sure many parents do that.

But what about children who do not have parents? Or those that hardly have time for their kids because they are working so hard for them. You can hardly expect children coming out of a war, living in refugee camps, starving, see any good in the world.

It is out duty to show them, to wipe away the bad memories, to tell them it is okay to forget the past, and to give them hope to live and be happy.

It should be the moral obligation of schools to teach a syllabus enriched with all those life’s lessons that actually could help one survive better, to learn to be a human sensitive and empathetic to others needs.

Maybe if education had stressed on all that I have written above, the great leaders of our world would be better human beings, would not fight over land and sea contantly, would exercise restrain during a political crisis, and would not be okay with the collateral damage of wars that result in millions of deaths, orphaned children, and broken families. Natural disasters have less impact on human lives these days, even nature is trying to be kind.

We are all trying to build a better world by doing so many things diffrently, every person is aware of what it takes to make that difference. From saving water, to going green, and a host of other stuff.

Children are impressionable, they will grow up to be what they were taught to be, so we must teach them the important things that will help them actually have a better life, and there is so much else to life than a few subjects, that in all probability very few will actually use.

I am certain the world is filled with pain, fear, hope, strength, love, anger, pity, ….and I am certain every human being has to deal with them many times in their lives.

We should teach our chidren what we are certain of.