Letter to the editor. Change school so that it teaches students for life

When we leave high school, we are suddenly expected to manage ourselves. We will pay bills, understand how loans work, declare and maybe even buy a home. But somewhere along the way we have missed an important detail: no one has learned how to actually do all this.

Instead, we have spent hours analyzing poems and solving equations that most of us will never use. It is strange how the school can give us so much knowledge, but at the same time leave us unprepared for something as basic as managing money and life at large.

We learn about the feudal community and the structure of the cells, but not about how to make a budget or what interest rate means. We get to know exactly how many protons an oxygen atom has, but no one tells us what happens if we do not pay a bill on time.

The consequence? Many young people end up in financial problems at the beginning of adulthood.

Student loans are taken without understanding how the repayment works, expensive fast loans attract the desperate, and unexpected expenses can put the entire economy out of balance. The fact that we do not receive basic education in private finance is not just a miss – it is a deficiency in our education system that can have serious consequences. But it’s not just about money.

Life knowledge should also include things like how to write a CV, how to seek housing, what rights and obligations you have in working life and how to handle stress and mental illness. Life is more than just numbers and facts – it’s about being able to navigate in a world where the choices we make actually have consequences.

The counter -argument usually be that it is the parents’ responsibility to teach their children such things. But not everyone has parents who have that knowledge or opportunity to convey it.

After all, the school is a place where we are prepared for the future – shouldn’t it then give us the tools to cope with it?

Maybe it’s time for us to re -evaluate what is most important in education. Of course, we should not scrap traditional subjects, but should we not also spend more time on things that actually affect our daily life?

If the school can teach us about the Second World War, can it also teach us how to avoid economic disasters and take us through adulthood in a stable way?

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