Daily reminder to teach your kids that they can easily find the e-mails and phone numbers of domain experts in any field online (e.g. a medical professor or a niche historian) and literally just politely ask them some questions, gaining priceless expert opinion for free.
Daily reminder to teach your kids that, if they are smart enough and willing to put in the time, they can most likely learn everything the accountant or lawyer knows online, or from a book, and fill out the scary government forms themselves, thus saving thousands of dollars.
Daily reminder to teach your kids that, if an organized group to do something basic doesn't exist, or does exist but is failing to coordinate (e.g. a homeowners' association) they can literally just start the group themselves or tell everyone else what to do and why.
Daily reminder to teach your kids that if their life isn't working out, they can literally just quit, leave, and go somewhere else to start over and try again. They can even move to Italy, or Albania, or India, or whatever. It's not illegal and is pretty cheap and fun.
Daily reminder to teach your kids that they can just ask for a raise at work. They can even demand it.
Daily reminder to teach your kids if they ever feel paranoid about a medical problem, they can just go to an emergency room and get expert attention and care immediately, for free. Even if it's not free, it can be made free with a few extra steps, depending on where you live.
Daily reminder to teach your kids that if they want to do anything, they can literally just buy some books on the subject and read them carefully to gain knowledge. Even astrophysics. It's literally that simple. You just have to pick up the books and read them.
Daily reminder to teach your kids that, if they think about it really hard, plan it out carefully, and write or speak with grace and empathy, they can probably persuade just about anyone of just about anything. You can just make other people do what you want this way.
I'm not sure how to classify these life lessons I've learned the hard way, though many are "autodidacticism," but these are the kinds of things that any educational reform or personal program of education for one's children should be targeting. Really increasing one's autonomy.
Education should probably be 25% memorizing important facts like what the capital of China is or when WWII started and 75% practicing seeking out knowledge (from books and experts) and persuading others (through rhetoric and logic).
That's it. That's what human life is.
That's it. That's what human life is.
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