Reading, writing and mathematics, taught to a high standard. Every student gets their own learning path, so they get the attention and direction they need. Around that core sit seven things a person needs and most schools never get to.
Reading, writing and mathematics, taught to a high standard, alongside science and history. Every student gets their own learning path, so nobody is moved along before they're ready and nobody is held at a page they finished in October.
Choices and what comes of them. Taking responsibility for your own work. Doing hard things because they're worth doing. Finishing what you start. Getting something wrong, or losing, and going again. Doing the work when nobody's watching.
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Physical activity every day, and learning how to look after your body. Real food and nutrition, and why it matters. First aid, CPR, and what to do in an emergency.
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How to break a problem down and work it out instead of memorising an answer. How to form a hypothesis, test it, and change your mind if you were wrong. Working from first principles: what you know to be true, rather than what you've been told.
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How to listen, how to understand where someone else is coming from, and how to get your own ideas across. Building an argument and defending it, speaking in front of a group, and taking a question you weren't expecting. How to work as a team to get something big done.
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How money works: earning it, saving it, what interest is, what things cost and why. Entrepreneurship and self-reliance. How to start and run a small business.
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Engineering, learned by doing it. Taking things apart, putting them back together, building from scratch. Hand tools, simple repairs, woodworking, growing food. How a computer works and how to write simple code.
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Time outside in every season. Finding your way, reading the weather, fire and shelter, plants and animals, and where food comes from before the store.
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