Answer: If your country’s education system could be completely reset, what are the three biggest changes you believe should be made, and why?
For context, this is a question I answered on Quora
- Create a separate vocational track for high school students and acknowledge the reality that not everyone is cut out to succeed in college or earn a worthwhile degree that is marketable to employers other than universities.
- Make universities cosign student loans by making it a requirement to receive all of their federal grant money.
- If school is supposed to prepare students for adulthood then it should include practical things like a personal finance class, a shop class and maybe bring back home economics and make them graduation requirements. If schools are turning out people who don’t know how to save, invest and run a household then they aren’t doing a very good job preparing them for adulthood.