Life changes constantly from primal days to modern, technological days. Instincts are no longer sufficient to be successful in today’s environment. The educational curriculum today only teaches children and pushes them to go down one career path not teaching them multiple skills. Skills are required to be able to live and survive the world today. Practical skills are skills that will allow people to take care of themselves without constant supervision, such as putting on clothing. Practical skills can vary from brushing teeth to having a degree in a subject. Possessing multiple practical skills are what allow people to not be stuck figuring out and being puzzled over a problem, so without the push of learning practical skills people would be
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Truth is 79% of people don’t get the job they have spent most of their time learning something that they “can’t and will never benefit from” (Lujan, 2006). If the high school students are able to reach their desired job then that’s beneficial for them, but what about those who don’t? What is their fall back plan to survive in the economy and be able to provide themselves? This leads to the idea of dropping out, but if the high school possessed multiple practical skills such as fixing car in Auto-tech or being able to use computers in Computer Programming, “more opportunities are introduced” to the students and they have a significantly higher chance of being able to support themselves after college (Stronghorn, 2014). If people do not push and emphasize the importance of learning multiple practical skills, future generations will be “less adept” to the work environment and even in the home and family life (Wilson, 2011). Ethnicity does indeed play a factor in how prominent the emphasis of learning practical skills because even in the diverse United States, some have to learn more skills than others. Immigrants tend to push and emphasize that their US born children to learning multiple skills to “establish themselves” and they’ll be able to support their family because the parents feel when they immigrated to the US, they had a late start. Taking many classes and learning many skills statistically improve a person’s chances to do well and becoming successful because in the end, we learn skills in order to be successful and create a better
Truth is 79% of people don’t get the job they have spent most of their time learning something that they “can’t and will never benefit from” (Lujan, 2006). If the high school students are able to reach their desired job then that’s beneficial for them, but what about those who don’t? What is their fall back plan to survive in the economy and be able to provide themselves? This leads to the idea of dropping out, but if the high school possessed multiple practical skills such as fixing car in Auto-tech or being able to use computers in Computer Programming, “more opportunities are introduced” to the students and they have a significantly higher chance of being able to support themselves after college (Stronghorn, 2014). If people do not push and emphasize the importance of learning multiple practical skills, future generations will be “less adept” to the work environment and even in the home and family life (Wilson, 2011). Ethnicity does indeed play a factor in how prominent the emphasis of learning practical skills because even in the diverse United States, some have to learn more skills than others. Immigrants tend to push and emphasize that their US born children to learning multiple skills to “establish themselves” and they’ll be able to support their family because the parents feel when they immigrated to the US, they had a late start. Taking many classes and learning many skills statistically improve a person’s chances to do well and becoming successful because in the end, we learn skills in order to be successful and create a better