Do you think that A's in math will save your child from failure? It's time to wake up.
According to a report by the World Economic Forum (2024), 65% of today's children will work in professions that do not yet exist. "School prepares for a world that no longer exists," historian Yuval Noah Harari said in an interview with The Guardian .
We'll reveal the skills that teachers don't talk about, but without them, your child will become a dinosaur in the ChatGPT era.
The first "success killer" is the inability to manage stress.
A 2023 study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that 78% of teens struggle with anxiety because they are taught to solve equations rather than emotions.
Psychologist Laurie Gottlieb , author of the bestseller Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, warns: "Parents who do their children's homework for them are raising helpless adults."
Example: 22-year-old Maxim from Moscow, expelled from university, admitted: “I know integrals, but I can’t choose between oatmeal and scrambled eggs.”
The second skill is financial literacy.
According to the National Financial Educators Council , 92% of teens don't understand what a credit card rate is.
“School teaches you how to find X, but not how to not lose all your money in crypto,” Elon Musk wrote on Twitter.
The father of 15-year-old Alina shared on his blog: "My daughter spent her scholarship on NFT pictures. Now I pay her to read Robert Kiyosaki books."
The most subtle but critical skill is the ability to learn.
Neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene proves in his book How We Learn: “Children who memorize paragraphs lose their ability to think creatively by the age of 30.”
A teacher from Finland, the country with the best education, admitted to Forbes : “We don’t give grades until the 7th grade. Instead, we teach children to ask questions.”
School's biggest failure is ignoring digital hygiene
According to the CyberSafe Foundation , 60% of teenagers cannot distinguish between fake and real.
“My son believed that the Earth is flat because of a YouTube video,” writes a user of the public page “Moms on the Edge.”
The Poynter Institute 's MediaWise project teaches kids fact-checking through memes and TikTok challenges.
In 10 years your child will not remember the discriminant formula.
But he will definitely regret that you did not teach him to say “no” to toxic people and did not show him how to survive an infostorm.
Author: Igor Zur