If only we had an education system the taught more than som how to pass exams.
It is quite frankly shocking how little the education system teaches outside of core subjects.
I was at secondary school in the early 2000's and yes we had some cooking classes, along with woodwork and textiles as part of design tech. But the cooking barely consisted of meal planning, or understanding the various nutrients that go in food and how they need to be balanced etc. I think one week we had a "make your own desert", so obviously being kids we would make an absolute monstrosity of a desert that probably had the daily sugar intake of 10 adults.
We did have some extra curricular/life skill lessons, but these were once a week for about 8 weeks, i think we covered a bit on finance (like what is a bank account), sex ed, learning to drive - i remember this module as part of it we went down to the local fire station where they'd had a crumpled car - basically to say don't drive like a ****.
There needs to be a lot more emphasis on basic life skills taught at schools. They don't need hundreds of financial lessons to turn them into accountants, but covering basic principles of budgeting, taxation, pension, loans, investing etc etc.
