It's great that I learned about the Aztecs and the Elizabethans and alluvial soil
and the square root of things when I was at school,but what would really have been handy would be
to have learned about:
How to read my superannuation statement
Understanding the stock market
Investment strategies
How to build a house
How to fix a car
Or make a dry stone fence
Or weave a rug
Or make furniture
and I could have learned about that other fairly interesting
but totally useless for real life stuff in my spare time.
Or not.
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I'd wish they'd taught me how to find that thing I put away carefully so I wouldn't lose it, to reverse in a straight line, to sew in a straight line, to recognise a straight line (there's a theme here!), to fill out forms, to stick to one task rather than multiskill and to say no to that Mars Bar cake!