The Galactic Question Center

I like that excerpt. Here is an article I came across recently - just a different point of view.

http://www.gantthead.com/article.cfm?ID=229080
 

regarding the interfacia und virtual relations...acquiring and wielding the discrimination to detect and navigate systems and the systems and networks that exist within larger systems and networks. Standard operating equipment of most human examples is that moral litmus dipstrip that when turning a disgusting hue prompts the testor to find cause to infiltrate, commandeer and exploit the nuances of those systems and the systems within which they are an integral, symbiotic though sometimes clandestine component..kids get way ahead on all this if they have the little white computers with the bitten fruit
 

The state of war, overpopulation, disintegrating environment, global warming, primary resource extraction, untested genetically modified foods, species extinction, human greed etc. dictate the most prized and probable paradigm of future job skills:

1) Flintknapping
2) Hunting
3) Fire making
4) Primary shelter construction

and for the technologicly advanced:
resource extraction from former landfill sites.
 

Of course kids won't need algebra skills. They can have the computer do it for them! They need to be informed with technology but sad enough its the technology that will rip their jobs away.
 

Niceness. A consideration for other human beings.

There is a distinct lack of nice people. I'd like to think that nice people would be more likely to get a job at interview than all the greedy, money-grabbing, selfish, [add synonyms here], not-nice people.

Of course, after the Apocalypse, altruistic acts will be the death of all the nice people. At that point I suppose only the ruthless will survive. So maybe ruthlessness, not niceness...
 

two little words: common sense!
 

I beleive that the state the world is in today dictates survival skills are to be most important for later in life.

The ability to make fire quickly and efficiently being foremost of all survival skills but also hunting and cleaning of game is extremely important.

but failing this i do think that people also need to be taught how to defend what they do secure. While some people may think that if you can survive in the wilderness you'll be fine. The problem is simply this: other people want what you have. And that is what may decide whether you die or continue
 

My daughter is writing her dissertation for a Phd in English & this is a big thing with her. The way I understand it, she says its not so much the specialization as the way in which the students are taught in schools & colleges.
The methods in which they are taught & keeping boredom out of learning is of utmost importance.
 

How about making a vessel that will hold water?

building a fire with friction?

hand to hand combat?
 

kids need to be taught to think for themselves so as to escape slavery.