The perfect curriculum would classes like personal finance ones that actually tell us what we need to know in the world. The perfect classes would be ones that tell us how to pay taxes, write checks, pay bills and how to exactly buy a house and a car. The perfect classes would be ones showing us how to fill out job applications and what jobs would be better suited for us. Classes right now teach us how to find the area of a triangle and who was the 18th president and what some guy did 1000 years ago that doesn't really matter to us. Yes, history is important, but no we don't need to learn about it over a 100 times. Instead we need to be learning about what is going to make us successful individuals when we become adults and then parents. I don't care if I understand what exactly Shakespeare was saying when he wrote a poem so long ago because I definitely can't bring that up at a job interview. Unless that is specifically what someone wants to study and if it was then they would go more into that in college. Classes would be completely different now if we actually were taught valuable life skills. We could cut out the crap that nobody cares about also would promote better learning. Kids now a days learn something and basically just cram memorize it and then forget it. I was in AP Euro sophomore year and while I could tell you some things I for sure couldn't tell you most of what I learned because it was memorized and then forgotten just like most math skills.
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