There are lots of things it would be useful to learn in school: how to hold a conversation, how to handle personal finances, how to carry out basic home repairs.
As Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde explained: “Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson after.”
They were, however, committed to a clean window being exactly that — completely clean especially in the corners. After all, the ability to converse effectively permeates every area and aspect of life. Conversing with co-workers, bosses, loved ones, dates, friends, spouses, neighbours, and acquaintances all require certain social norms and boundaries to be observed, norms and boundaries I discovered the hard way.
Business classes, such as they were at my high school, explained accounting procedures, financing arrangements and business structures, but did not focus much on personal finances, saving or investing. For somebody who had yet to learn how to drive a nail in straight, owning my own home revealed yet another list of personal deficiencies.
Learning how to read a ruler and tape measure and being able to take accurate measurements would have been even better.
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