What’s a thing you wish schools actually taught?
I’d say three things:
Ethics. Not just being told what is right or wrong, but learning how to think through difficult moral questions — responsibility, fairness, honesty, respect, consent, consequences, and how our choices affect other people.
Critical thinking. How to question information, recognise bias, separate evidence from opinion, check sources, spot manipulation and misinformation, and be willing to change your mind when the evidence changes. In the age of social media and AI, this should be a basic life skill.
Religion — all of them. Religion is already taught in many schools, but I’d like to see students given a genuinely broad understanding of the world’s major religions and non-religious beliefs. What people believe, why they believe it, how different faiths developed, what they have in common, and where they differ. Understanding other people’s beliefs doesn’t require agreeing with them — it helps us understand the world we live in.
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