I have young kids, and it’s got me thinking…

Should schools be teaching more about money?

Things like mortgages, interest rates, inflation, taxes, super and budgeting.

It feels like it’s mostly up to me and my wife to teach them, which seems crazy considering how important this stuff becomes once you leave school.

Am I missing something? Were you taught any real money skills at school?

Parents, do you feel the same?

So, for 15 years of my life I been studying in different institutions. In Bangladesh there are four levels of government certification examination before University. I have gotten a GPA 5 in my 5th grade exam (PSC) and a GPA 4.44 in my 10th grade exam (SSC). The second level (JSC) examination was cancelled due to COVID-19. I am now preparing for the fourth level aka the final level (HSC).

When I got a 4.44 in SSC, I asked people is this is bad. Google, people who studied before me, everyone told me it's a good GPA. I also thought it's a good GPA cause the grade for 4.00 and above is "A" which is good, right?

Trust me when I say this, I searched for good colleges to study in but ALL of them required a GPA 5. WHY??! Like...I get it, everyone wants the golden children but isn't it the responsibility of the educational institutions to make a person worthy for a society? They scoop out the talented kids and claim that they built them. Now I know why they are so reputed!

But I might be wrong here. A GPA of 4.44 might be considered as nothing here... Idk😐 that's why I need some opinions on this. Am I tripping or is a person with a GPA 5 the only ones who are worth living?

Right now I am very stressed about the final level. I have been trying my best but I still feel like I have done nothing. Pay for me anyone who's reading this, please🙏

What school was made for

The first modern car was invented 140 years ago (in 1886), while the modern classroom system has remained largely unchanged since the Industrial Revolution, made to train punctual, obedient factory workers, which peaked around 150 to 200 years ago.

Even though we aren't factories workers anymore, but it takes too much money to remove them now (and will cause pollution) but this kind of school is not needed unless you just do want to learn it and waste time and money!

You learn English at school, but you already live in English, so why bother learn advanced vocabulary if you'd never use it again? The brain is good at adaption, and if you live in a country long enough you will be able to speak to the people there in their language. [DELETED]

Bulling

Schools always say they care but when it happens, they deny it even happened?

"We have no evidence that they did that"

That the most used sentence ever. They don't even care about investigating, they think it's just drama and attention seeking which makes the bullying worse and may causes trauma.

Bullies always hurt people at bathrooms, locker rooms etc. and there are no cameras. Like, what do you want? Video evidence? In the bathroom? How are we going to accept that? The only evidence is memory and eyewitnesses, and the school completely deny they exist.

The student who memorizes notes gets the highest grades.

The student who questions everything gets told to “focus on the syllabus.”

Are we creating smart people or obedient people?

(Hello all. I originally wrote this post as critique to tertiary education but I thought this topic should be discussed for compulsory schooling as well. So I decided to edit my original post to fit the topic. Thanks for understanding.)

Let's analyze the term, "Education", itself, which means the process itself to learn and deeply understand the topic. To me, the purpose of Education is to go for the sake of education itself. To me, it represents a love for learning a topic, whether it be Chemistry, Math, or even Philosophy. The goal of Education is simple, its to learn the topic you are deeply passionate about.

But in today's society, education has lost it's meaning. Education is not treated as a passion anymore. Instead, it is treated as a requirement for survival and on top of that, it's something forced upon the youth. Society tells the youth of today that you must get good grades in subjects you are forced to learn to achieve success. Otherwise, you will fail to survive and end up on the streets, begging for food to those passing by. On top of that, you will be considered a failure, and be treated as an inferior, worthless member of society.

There is also the matter of what exactly are students learning in higher education. Students are required to take classes in the topic that society deems worthy for survival, which are the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Other subjects, such as the Fine Arts and Music are deemed unworthy by our society to the point where they even get cut or eliminated by schools as well. There are students who are deeply passionate about the fine arts or music but they immediately get discouraged from pursuing their passions and instead, end up pursuing a field they deeply have no passion for.

This is how education has lost its meaning. We have turned something built on the premise of the love of learning to a tool of survival and a label for elitism. The purpose of school is to foster a passion for learning and provide the blueprint to master your passions. But all the passion for learning is mostly gone now from our modern society and we have built a generation of humanity that have lost their passion for learning and view it as tool for survival.

Most people are not going to school for the love of learning, they are going because they have to. Otherwise, they will be treated as an inferior in society and end up in poverty itself, to the point where one cannot survive. Education is yet another victim of our judgmental and corrupt capitalist society.

oi, eu nao aguento mais, eu sou o aluno quieto e legal, serio todos ao meu redor fala que eu parecia ser folgado e que ficava feliz só qnd eu vinha mais tem outro grupinho q praticamente me odeia sem eu ter feito nd, um mlk la ele vive me chutando do nd e eu n bato nele por medo de juntar mais de 100 pessoas na frente da minha casa, teve uma vez q eu decidi reagir e veio mais de 100 pessoas na porta da minha casa, e agr tem esse mlk tipo eu tenho medo de reagir e ele fica fznd isso?, mano só queria ter paz, to quase levando um desodorante e um isqueiro pra escola

I study in +2, and we had a lab yesterday.

The teacher spent most of the time saying things like, "Do it yourself," "Don't use that," "Don't do this," and "Don't touch that." I get that some rules are there for safety. Nobody wants the lab to burn down.

But at one point, I just picked up a funnel and got told not to. It made me wonder, what's the whole point of a lab if we're barely allowed to explore?

What frustrates me more is how school treats exams like they're the ultimate goal. Why is doing everything alone considered the "right" way to learn? Humans evolved by cooperating, sharing knowledge, and solving problems together. That's how we got this far.

I don't hate the teacher. I think they're shaped by the system and by the circumstances they're placed in, molded by the pressures and expectations around them. It's not really their fault. No one here deserves to be hated.

I feel like understanding why people act the way they do is how systems eventually change.

Has anyone else had a similar experience? What's your opinion on schools focusing so much on individual performance instead of collaboration and curiosity?