“I Wasn’t Taught This” Is Not an Excuse

[My_King]

I hate the constant complaining of “I was never taught about interest rates,” “I was never taught how taxes work,” “I was never taught how mortgages work,” or “I was never taught how to budget.”

At some point, being an adult means taking responsibility for learning things you weren’t explicitly taught at school. Schools can’t realistically teach you every single thing you’ll need in life—how credit cards work, how to invest, how insurance works, how contracts work, how to negotiate a salary, how to cook, or how to manage your money.

Yes, financial education is important and schools could absolutely do a better job of teaching some of it, but “I wasn’t taught it” shouldn’t be treated as a permanent excuse for not knowing something.

We live in an age where you can learn almost anything in five minutes, so at some point, curiosity and personal responsibility have to kick in.

Found the latest "I was not taught..." thing:

 

[Ninja'd]

And yet they thought I needed to learn about the unification of Italy.

As if that was the most exciting part of that region's history.

 

[Smiggles]

Why pay hundreds of thousands for school then when you still need to learn all useful things after hours? It's all a scam.

 

[saor]

Why pay hundreds of thousands for school then when you still need to learn all useful things after hours? It's all a scam.

Sure but his point is you shouldn't go though life being a dumdum because of it.

 

[Ninja'd]

One thing I still don't know is how a orange dumbf**k's tweets affects the JSE.

Or stock exchanges in general. fokol real knowledge.

 

[Smiggles]

One thing I still don't know is how a orange dumbf**k's tweets affects the JSE.

Or stock exchanges in general. fokol real knowledge.

I do know about the stages of a butterfly though. Too bad with global heating they're also dying out.

 

[EmmanuelGoldstein]

This sounds like a thread about Gen Z snowflake problems

 

[ArmatageShanks]

School Teaches you the fundamentals and gives you a brief overview of the world in the past.

You are taught how to learn and how to think critically.

Or perhaps that is just how my school was, either way as an adult you are responsible for yourself, and if no one taught you how to wipe your arse, that is now your problem, you should mend it, apportioning blame to someone or something else or the past does not mend the issue YOU face.

 

[Cray]

Honestly, I don't see it as people looking for excuses, I think they are pointing out that in an education system where we put kids through 12 years of education, that perhaps there is some room to teach people more things that will affect them in the real world rather than things they might never use again.

 

[FiestaST]

Lack of critical thinking 'R Us.

 

[Lupus]

School Teaches you the fundamentals and gives you a brief overview of the world in the past.

You are taught how to learn and how to think critically.

Or perhaps that is just how my school was, either way as an adult you are responsible for yourself, and if no one taught you how to wipe your arse, that is now your problem, you should mend it, apportioning blame to someone or something else or the past does not mend the issue YOU face.

Actually that is the exact opposite of what school teaches you. School teaches you to memorise and to pass tests, that is all it does. Heavily swung to cookie cutter, box methodology as well, everyone needs to be the same.

 

[Lupus]

Honestly, I don't see it as people looking for excuses, I think they are pointing out that in an education system where we put kids through 12 years of education, that perhaps there is some room to teach people more things that will affect them in the real world rather than things they might never use again.

Oddly enough, this is what Math Lit actually teaches, instead of the complex things Math Core does.

 

[Cray]

Oddly enough, this is what Math Lit actually teaches, instead of the complex things Math Core does.

True, but am talking more about something that shouldn't be tested. Was thinking that a life skills subject, even for 30 minutes a week that falls out of regular examinations might work. Something along the lines of physical education or religious education.

 

[Lupus]

And yet they thought I needed to learn about the unification of Italy.

As if that was the most exciting part of that region's history.

I never learnt about the unification of Italy in history... Though history was my favourite subject, it isn't exactly something to go into.

 

[ArmatageShanks]

Actually that is the exact opposite of what school teaches you. School teaches you to memorise and to pass tests, that is all it does. Heavily swung to cookie cutter, box methodology as well, everyone needs to be the same.

So how come I left school having experienced exactly what I said? Are you suggesting I'm dilutional or?

 

[Magnum]

Why pay hundreds of thousands for school then when you still need to learn all useful things after hours? It's all a scam.

 

[Cray]

And yet they thought I needed to learn about the unification of Italy.

As if that was the most exciting part of that region's history.

Eish, at least when we learnt about the unification of Germansy it led up to the histry of the First world war. Maybe your History department was run by an Italian....

 

[Lupus]

So how come I left school having experienced exactly what I said? Are you suggesting I'm dilutional or?

I would assume so, though what are you dilated or diluted in? Cause you might be delusional ;-)

 

[Cray]

Actually that is the exact opposite of what school teaches you. School teaches you to memorise and to pass tests, that is all it does. Heavily swung to cookie cutter, box methodology as well, everyone needs to be the same.

I disagree, maybe at primary school that is the focus but I remember in Matric history, the focus was far less on memorizing dates rather than being able to make a cohesive argument an aspect of history - at least in the essay section.

 

[Lupus]

Eish, at least when we learnt about the unification of Germansy it led up to the histry of the First world war. Maybe your History department was run by an Italian....

That would be a long build up? Like 40 years? Always thought it was cause some band was shot outside when a guy dropped his Sandwich