21st Century Education

I think the most important skills that I will need for my post high school life are things like basic math and science knowledge, how to read and write well, and common sense. You also need to be able to deal with problems yourself, and be able to figure things out on your own. I think we have already developed the educational part of what we need to know, but now we are learning more then we actually need to know. The things I’m learning in math 11 will never have any relevance to my life. We need to start learning more about fending for ourselves and what it will actually be like in the real world other then the things we don’t need to know for what we want to do with our lives. The perfect school in my opinion would be to have the basics of all courses for grades 5-10, and then for 11-12 we only take courses that we need for what we want to do, and actually get to experience that career before we actually set our minds to it. We would get to choose the classes we take instead of having ones that are required to graduate. Next year I’m taking the business administration course at Okanagan College. I’m not sure what I want to do yet, but by taking this course there are many choices. I chose to take the diploma first, and if I like it I will proceed onto the bachelor’s degree.