Everyone has to do one year of mandatory schooling in young adulthood that focuses on being a good human being
Posted by Fluffy_Efficiency623@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 12 comments
Say age 25 or so when we have had some time to experience adult life and key our brains mature, then we do a year of learning and skill building. Emotional regulation, healthy communication, boundary setting. Learning about the impacts of trauma, basic mental health conditions, the value of exercise and how to eat well, the value of play for adults and being creative. And a section on how to resist marketing and polarization, and how to identify logical fallacies and the most common types of bias or errors in thinking that people make. So basically critical thinking.
So many of our societal issues are because people get stuck in survival mode/fight or fight and end up in Us vs. Them thinking, and are vulnerable to being manipulated. And people suffer because they don't have the ability to self reflect or build deep relationships and be vulnerable. So I think we just ban the ability to avoid this stuff. Oh you're a CEO of a company you inherited at 23? Too bad, you're learning how to talk to your wife now. You're maybe a little racist? Now you get to learn about how society treats people from different backgrounds. Anger problems? Nope. Time to calm down.
cpt_ugh@reddit
Ideally everyone's parents do this, not required schooling.
But since that doesn't seem to be working so well these days, this could be a workable alternative.
PawsAndPeony@reddit
people grinding life stats but ignoring emotionaal intelligence is the real glitch
Strange-Comb6384@reddit
Higher order thinking skills are not taught in schools. Unfortunate. Re-vamp the curriculum to reflect teaching Howard Gardner s theories of the multiple intelligences!
pomegranatejello@reddit
The stuff you’re mentioning about rhetoric, biases and diversity is already a major reason why we assign English literature and history classes.
In an ideal world, the diet, exercise and conflict resolution things would already be covered in health class and PE.
Fluffy_Efficiency623@reddit (OP)
Agreed, but I think the level of depth that we go into in high school is good for a basic foundation, but things seem to land differently when people have had a few years to settle as adults. I did learn about diet and exercise etc in school, yet most of the people I graduated with complained about never being taught any of that within a few years of being out. Like I always see people arguing that if school wanted to be helpful or should teach people how to do their taxes, and I'm like yeah that's why we spent several weeks doing a whole unit on it haha.
jeffmc81@reddit
You first
Fluffy_Efficiency623@reddit (OP)
I have gone my first, I always believe in walking the talk. I have done over 1000 hours of therapy over the last decade and have done a number of mental health and communication trainings. And it's greatly improved my quality of life, which is why I so strongly recommend it to others.
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music_production_alt@reddit
And who determines what it means to be a good human being? You?