What are the things that everyone in the world should have to learn?

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

-Robert A. Heinlein

Swimming.
Not just to be able to have fun and fitness, but mainly to be able to save one self when, for whatever reason, one ends up in the water.
Start teaching children as soon as possible.
Every year again there are too many (one is already too many) children drowning when they accidentally fall in canals, streams and even small, inflatable pools.

Manners and how to be friendly! It won’t kill you to say hi to a stranger! Maybe even smile once in a while. Plus learn to drive the speed limit and put down the damn phone before you kill someone! HS!

Consideration for others.

Impulse control

CPR
Standard transmission
First Aid
How to swim
Firearm safety
Basic cooking skills

Keep their mouth shut when the need arises.

this also holds true for little white lies

Never under any circumstances attempt to get the final say in any argument with the wife.
Brick wall, head, beat.

I liked what the Dalai Llama said in 2008. He essentially said that there’s two kinds of knowledge, where one person could be an excellent CEO, but if this person can’t get in touch with humanity as a whole, he’s still not very smart. And then the opposite, where one person could be as humanistic and spiritual as they want, but if they can’t perform basic work functions, they aren’t so smart either.

I think we need to learn to have a balance between having skill knowledge and knowledge of the universe and ourselves as a whole.

To pick up after their own SHIT.

Learning how to read is becoming increasingly important.

Budget their money, read, use basic functions of a computer, and get informed enough on the issues of the time to vote sensibly.

Most importantly, a sense of awareness of what it is you don’t know, and respect for those who do know those things.

To ask for help with things they can’t do on their own.

Arithmetic, learn how to do long multiplication and division, add fractions, work out percentages , add up and subtract rows of numbers all without a calculator!
Also be able to do simple sums like working out change, in your head.

How to feed themselves, clean themselves, shelter themselves, and find water in their particular bioregion. If you’ve got that down, it’s just a matter of getting those in power to let you do those things.

I who say you are dreams am a dream myself

Common sense and how NOT to be racist.

Be considerate.
Have good self control.
Be as honest as possible.
Know how to survive without technology.

truth

Respect and manners!

I think a basic psychology class should be added to the list of subjects schools typically require students to take (like maths, science, language, etc).

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

~ Charles Darwin