I'll second the swimming one, but when I was a nipper at school it was on the syllabus, has that changed? And that credit equals debt and ought to be avoided, I know intelligent young people who just don't get that it has to be repaid someday... Oh and the obvious one about education and learning being the key to change.

You're spot on, there. I don't think there is a bigger, more important, lesson for most people.

I found out recently that one of my best friends, at age 22, didn't know how to fill up the gas tank of a car. :eek: I can't even drive, but at least I can pump gas.

I also think people should know basic nutrition. The things that people believe about eating are pretty ridiculous -- for instance, that eating fat is that only thing that makes you fat, and that meat is the only substantial source of protein.

Somewhere, somehow, the distinction between the substances you put in your mouth, and the substances your body builds out of the materials it gets after breaking that other stuff down, has been lost. I point to the cow: a big mountain of meat, that eats GRASS.

I took a CPR class, had to to be a certified lifegaurd. can't say I remember any of it.

But truthfully? The only thing humans NEED to know is how to choose the peaceful choice in a situation.

What if there is no peaceful choice?

Then how to end it in one or two moves.

Sorry, beat you to it.

http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=346226&postcount=8

:blush: Well, that was me, too. In my defense, I live in New Jersey, where it is illegal to pump your own gas. As my father put it, it keeps an otherwise unemployable segment of the workforce employed. (But perhaps that was more relevant before the Sikhs took over the gas station racket -- they could certainly make a go of it in any industry they took on.)

I can quote you chapter and verse on current nutrition science, and yet I'm obese. Knowledge & willpower are necessary but not sufficient conditions.

I should know the due dates for our CDRLs. And anyone who knows what a CDRL is has my sympathies.

- Pie

How to knit a pair of crotchless panties.