on untaught skills?

the youth live so much of their lives in schools (sometimes even more time than they do with their kinfolk)

...yet the following seem to flee the minds of the young (and even myself):

the skills

handling tools

• hammers
• screwdrivers
• wrenches
• vises

sparing and growing wealth

knowing the upsides and downsides of each means of doing so:

• banks
• ores (gold + silver + more)
• bonds
• stocks
• shared wealth ("mutual funds")
• hidden wealth ("cryptocurrency")
• small business

eating and drinking

• growing food
• cooking food
  • boiling water
  • cutting meat
  • cutting greens
• knowing what foods make you fat and unhealthy
• cleaning (purifying dirty) water

living through hard times

• making and fixing clothes
• building a "for now" home if needed
• fixing one's home
  • leaks
  • walls
  • lights

making life more meaningful

• getting ready for big life happenings
  • weddings
  • births
  • deaths
• reading the news
  • learning to read the news with care
• knowing the many ways to think about things
  • not telling them which way to think is the "right way"
    • let the children find that out

finding one's way through the world

• knowing hardware and software
  • how to learn almost anything from them
  • the online world and how it may harm us
  • which tools work best with which task (and when)
• knowing "how" and "why" (besides only the "what"):
  • teaching the "how" gives the learner the knowledge for a lifetime
  • teaching only the "what" would have a shorter lifespan

"elders and schools"

yes, fathers and mothers should teach some (if not all) of these skills but:

• children spend so much time in school (6 hours a day for 10 years)
  • they should also have these skills bettered there
• many schools already do teach these skills
  • but it feels like it's never enough
  • too much time seems spent on "other things"
    • leaving the "other things" for the reader to find out, since children don't seem to be learning the "needful things" enough!