Liam Nash: Schools should teach life lessons

Students at high school are not taught basic adult life skills, says Liam Nash.

The absolute worst thing about high school is the nonchalant way you go through the years without a clue about how to function as an adult once you leave.

I am in my final year of school, and much to my own disbelief I realise I have no idea how to live life as an adult.

We spend five days of our week studying and socialising within the confines of a few buildings, learning what we are told is important. So you would think the education system would at least somewhat prepare its students for our lives outside of school.

Hey, I have nothing against trying to solve a four-step equation to find x, but what good does that do when you are trying to get over an ex?

And what happens when we are told to look between the lines to find the author's true meaning, but 10 years later wish we were taught how to look for dry rot in the timber walls when house hunting?

In order to carry out everyday life as an adult, certain practical methods are used that most people don't even think twice about.

I don't see what harm there is in schools introducing a life education programme where students "learn how to be a grown up". That way, once we leave school we will be prepared and not make the mistakes that all parents seem to regret.

But what do I know, I'm just a kid stuck in school doing my best to dot my I's and cross my T's.