What’s high school for?

Perhaps we could endeavor to teach our future the following:

- How to focus intently on a problem until it’s solved.

- The benefit of postponing short-term satisfaction in exchange for long-term success.

- How to read critically.

- The power of being able to lead groups of peers without receiving clear delegated authority.

- An understanding of the extraordinary power of the scientific method, in just about any situation or endeavor.

-How to persuasively present ideas in multiple forms, especially in writing and before a group.

-Project management. Self-management and the management of ideas, projects and people.

-Personal finance. Understanding the truth about money and debt and leverage.

-An insatiable desire (and the ability) to learn more. Forever.

-Most of all, the self-reliance that comes from understanding that relentless hard work can be applied to solve problems worth solving.

Seth Godin’s What’s high school for?