7 things public schools never bothered to teach me

Public schools are collective masterclasses of propagating to you why the State continually saves capitalism from itself. But that’s not education. 

If you’re fine with a group of people who earn money via theft indoctrinating your kid for 12-plus years, then by all means, send them to public schools. They’ll recite and repeat the State’s propaganda without question unless they’re bright enough to see through the con.

Unfortunately, I didn’t start seeing through it until I took a red pill or two. But when I did, I saw at least seven things that nobody bothered to teach me between the grades K through 12.

In hindsight, I can confidently say I learned next to nothing in school, while I learned a whole lot more teaching myself how to survive and thrive in the real world. So below, I compiled a list of seven things I wish I learned in school but never did because the teachers thought State-backed curriculums better prepared me for life.

And to be real: I think they’re collectively a bunch of compulsive liars. 

1 – How to self-direct my own learning

There wasn’t a single teacher I had in public school who claimed you could learn outside of a classroom. Not that there aren’t teachers who will, but mine acted like if you weren’t present at school, you put your “education” in jeopardy.

2 – That college isn’t always the ‘holy grail’ to success

During my time, there was a national initiative going on to encourage collegiate attendance to the point every teacher put on their door where they went to school. Now that I write this, I realized it was all an act, and that it’s not college or bust. Sometimes, I feel it’s the other way around: Either learn or teach yourself on-the-job skills or bust.

3 – Personal finance

I’ll be fair: I took classes that glossed over personal finance. But that’s as far as it went. We spent more time learning tech that would become dated in a few years, while math class was relegated to solving equations, functions, and learning geometry. I use none of the above these days, but personal finance would’ve been great.

4 – Basic vehicle maintenance

Vehicles have also changed over the years, but the essentials remain the same. How do you change a tire? How do you check oil? What do you do when the check engine light comes on? Is it any coincidence that, when people I know have had car trouble, their initial reaction is, “I don’t know what to do?'”

5 – Basic household maintenance

Yeah, parents are the best teachers for this. But it would’ve been great if school doubled down here. The closest I got to learning basic household maintenance were a couple of Home-Ec classes in the fifth and sixth grade for a grand total of 14 weeks.

6 – How to start and sustain a business

My old high school prides itself on one mission, and I’m paraphrasing: To ensure each student engages in either Enrollment, Enlistment, or Employment. A fourth ‘E,’ Entrepreneurship, is missing. Public schools don’t want you to be self-reliant and build your own business. They want to keep you dependent and, in some cases, indebted.

7 – How to interact with different age groups

You might interact with your teachers and some students a few years above or under you, the latter of which are still in your age group. This completely contradicts what happens in real life, when you regularly interact with people of different age groups. As for interacting with teachers? You’re to see them as authority figures, not equals, which only increases cognitive conditioning to bow down to and fear those who are older.

Bonus points…

Public schools also never taught me that coercion is never okay. Probably because they rely on coercion to keep their hallways filled. But you know which school doesn’t need coercion? Arcane Elemental Academy, an umbrella institution with 32 competing schools operating within its framework.

All 32 schools are independently run, private institutions that either show up or shut down, depending on how they perform. And Yote Diamondback is about to get a crash course in just how efficiently school and society can run on markets, not central planning and coercion.

But before she attends Arcane, Yote learns a lot about how to control her elemental magic not at an institution, but at home with her caring father and bully of a sister. Meet Yote right now by reading the first three chapters of The Arcane Prophecy, Book I in the series before she steps foot in the anarcho-capitalist land of Aurora Village, where Arcane is located.