Former Stanford Dean Shares Skills That Everyone Should Have By Eighteen
Welcome to the real world.
Business Insider reports.
Former Stanford dean shares the 8 skills everyone should have by age 18
1. An 18-year-old must be able to talk to strangers.
Faculty, deans, advisers, landlords, store clerks, human resource managers, coworkers, bank tellers, health care providers, bus drivers, mechanics — in the real world.
The crutch: We teach kids not to talk to strangers instead of teaching the more nuanced skill of how to discern the few bad strangers from the mostly good ones. Thus, kids end up not knowing how to approach strangers — respectfully and with eye contact — for the help, guidance, and direction they will need out in the world.
2. An 18-year-old must be able to find his way around.
A campus, the town in which her summer internship is located, or the city where he is working or studying abroad.
Former Stanford dean shares the 8 skills everyone should have by age 18 (Business Insider)
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A 18 year old should be able to do at least 1/3 of Robert A. Heinlein’s list.
“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.”