Schools Teach Yesterday’s Skills

Students spend roughly fifteen thousand hours in classrooms by the time they graduate high school.

That's more time than most people spend learning to drive, cook,

or manage money combined. Yet schools rarely teach practical life skills like

filing taxes or negotiating salaries. The system was designed during the industrial revolution to create

factory workers who could follow instructions and work in shifts. Today we're preparing

kids for jobs that don't even exist yet using a model from eighteen seventy. The mismatch is

wild when you think about it.