What SHOULD you know

[CzinZumerzet]

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.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by CzinZumerzet

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...

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

[Hime]

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. 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.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Hime

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.

[Pie]

Originally Posted by Hime

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. I can't even drive, but at least I can pump gas.

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.)

Originally Posted by Hime

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.

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