A school is a place to explore knowledge and also expand relationships. Generally schools teach many subjects which students must understand in order to pass the exam with a good mark. Unfortunately, from all the subjects, there are many important things that we realize that we weren’t taught in school, and our kids need to know!
1. Respect Other People’s Opinions
Respecting the opinion of others is important skill life that most of the kids learnt as they became adults. Nowadays, it is very difficult to find people who can understand and respect people’s opinions. No matter how absurd their opinions are, people are free to have opinions.
People have the right to express any opinion. Even if our opinion differs from that of the other person, we still have to respect and give them the opportunity to have an opinion. Even if it’s just kids, we still have to give them a chance to talk.
2. Rise From Failure
Everyone has experienced failure in life. At least experience at least one failure in life. Failure can not only happen in the world of work, failure can occur in various aspects of life such as romance, friendship, business, even in a family. However, not everyone can be patient and know how to get back up.
Children may not have experienced failure that far given their young age. But they can still experience failure in school and also in making friends. Do they understand how to overcome these failures? Not necessarily, since not all schools teach how to rise from failure. What is taught is always to move forward to reach the dream as high as possible, but it doesn’t take into account what happens when you fail.
3. Queue
The habit of queuing is still reluctant to be carried out by many people. It can be seen in restaurants, when paying, even on the streets, people are reluctant to queue.
It is necessary to teach the culture of queuing from a young age. Teach them to queue at every moment that does require them to queue. Make children understand that queuing is a mandatory and good thing to do. Even when you’re in a hurry, you still have to follow the rules.
4. Dealing with Stress and Fear
The number of problems faced can make a stress. Anyone would not want to experience it and some are even afraid of stress. The longer the stress is suppressed and there is no way out, the more people can run in a negative direction. For instance, alcohols, drugs, or it could be suicide.
Even adults can become vulnerable in times of fear and stress, so are the young children. In order to prepare the children to get used to fear and can face the pressures of life, it is necessary to be guided not only in the family but also in school. Most of the school think that it is not important to teach such thing as they are still young and they don’t really understand work, money, and other adult problems. It is at this time that teachers are expected to be able to help their students to be able to face fear, whether it’s in class or the teacher.
5. Take Care of Important Documents
Growing up, one must have important documents such as identification cards, driving licenses, passports, CVs, and many other important documents. Believe it or not, there are still many people who don’t know how to take care of these important documents.
At school, students may be told that later they must have an ID card, driver’s license, and a card or other important document, but are not told how to make one and where to make one. This information should be taught in school from an early age so that children can prepare themselves when they grow up.
6. Building Relationships With Others
Not a few who experience problems when dealing with other people. Connecting in the sense of not only with the opposite gender, but with the same gender also needs to be established good relationships. Difficulties increase when not only the gender difference, but the age difference also makes communication more difficult.
Communication problems with other people can be minimized while still in school. The teachers can invite students to not only hang out with their classmates in class, but also with those of the class above and below. The goal is clear so that when they grow up, they can deal with awkwardness.
7. Survival Ability
What must be done when the world is in chaos that makes humans have to live in the wild? Or take the example of cases that may occur, such as catastrophic natural disasters such as floods, tsunamis, fires, earthquakes, and other natural disasters? What to do, where to go, what to eat? The possibility of the world experiencing a precarious state like this will always exist, while not everyone is ready to face it.
Survival skills become the only savior of a person when a major natural disaster occurs. Not everyone has this ability because no one teaches it. This knowledge is usually obtained by reading books or searching the internet, but no school taught it. Though it is not only theory that is important, but practice is also important.
8. Develop Personal Talents
Every child is born unique, they are born with their own talents. But why do many children fail to develop their talents? That’s because from the school stage, they are not taught how to find out and develop their talents. They only grow and develop on the basis of the will of parents and teachers at school.
In order to be successful does not have always go through education. Who would have thought that playing video games today could actually become rich? Therefore, schools should not only pursue academic values but also find out the interests of the students. Who knows, the student’s talent will be useful to him later when he grows up.
9. Accept The Differences
We cannot close our eyes to the difference. The difference exists and is real before our eyes. What we tend to do instead of accepting these differences is to think that we are all the same. This mindset of all people is taught since childhood which is actually wrong and must be corrected.
Children must be taught from a young age that differences exist. Not saying that everyone is the same, but that differences exist and must be accepted sincerely. Some are white, some are black, some are in high positions in the company, some are not. Teach children to accept that these differences exist, instead of generalizing or even denying that there are differences.
10. Self Defense
Time is progressing, criminals are increasing. The way this criminal acts are also increasing. Not to mention the addition of the criminal who no longer cares about the age, gender, and condition of the victim, or can be simply more sadistic. So don’t be surprised that people nowadays have to be able to do what is called self-defense.
Children also have to understand how to defend themselves from bad people. Take for example the case of sexual abuse, many children do not understand how to take care of their bodies so that they can be used by criminals. School should add martial arts subjects to teach children self-defense so that they can be taught to avoid unwanted things.
