The 12 Important Life Skills I Wish I’d Learned In School
“Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.”
~ Lee Iacocca
I learned an immense amount in school. I think teacher’s have probably the best job in the world. The importance of an education is irrefutable. In fact, I wrote an article a couple months ago “Undercover Superheroes: The Hidden Powers of Teachers” about the wonderful value of teachers. That being said having been in the so-called “real-world” for a fair amount of time, there are certain life skills that I feel I didn’t learn enough about in school. Many items on the list below are touched upon, some covered in more depth than others in our schooling, but I think the key factor is where the emphasis is placed. What I’ve come to learn is there’s specific angles towards and pieces of these subjects that should be looked at and studied more closely in an effort to give students a real edge before being handed a diploma and heading down life’s path. Many of the same items I’m going to share have been mentioned in various articles all over the internet. But I wanted to share my top 12. The 12 life skills I strongly feel are most important some of which schools touch on but don’t emphasize nor go into enough detail about. Too much graphing parabolas, memorizing the quadratic…
