Writing Prompt: Is education important?

The things that are taught in schools, from elementary all the way through high school and even college, don't truly relate to what will apply in life. We are not taught about loans, paying taxes, how to sew, how to cook, and anything else that is fundamental to life and living on your own after leaving your parent's house. We are not taught time management and how to deal with stress. Homework is piled on to prepare students for tests. This is seen in all schools anywhere in the states. I feel like -- being a college student -- that this is how it is for us as well. We have these General Education classes that everyone has to take. One or two science classes, at least one math class, and other required classes. Does anyone actually retain that information besides those who go into those careers? More than likely, NO. I know I didn't. I didn't even retain the information from my foreign language classes. I remember the basic words in Spanish and French, but nothing else. 

Along with that, some of my required classes for my major are so unimportant. Why do I have to take American Lit or British Literature and Shakespeare and so on. I don't retain any of the information. Even my Creative Writing Fiction class is so not useful. The professor is so focused on short stories and what it can't have, but I feel like he is saying it as fiction in general cannot include those. It's irks me so much and I am disliking the class! 

The only classes I am finding helpful are my Creative Writing Poetry, Intro to Rhetoric, Intro to User Experience, and Copy-Editing. In Poetry, I have learned to appreciate poetry and that I am actually able to right poems. Rhetoric is a class that I feel everyone should be required to take as a General Education class, as it teaches not only Aristotle's ethos, pathos, and logos, but so much more. In English classes, we are told about the rhetoric and those three things, but never anything more. Things make so much more sense and I am seeing rhetoric used in a lot of things, including books. Rhetoric can be used in so much, that it should be something that is taught. The other two classes are just useful and interesting. 

I also feel like classes about how to do taxes and dealing with loans should be in high school. Those things are so important and a lot of people don't know about them these days. Along with writing a check. I work in the cashiers office, and I have had to tell students how to fill out the check! Students these days don't know how to because they probably use credit cards more often than not.

Home economics classes should also be in schools. My mom has told me about the days when she was in high school and took home ec classes. She learned a lot of useful things in that class. Cooking and baking, were apart of that, along with sewing, and other life management stuff.

So yeah, that's my thought on education. Until tomorrow.