In high school my English class held socratic seminar once a week. Looking back Mr. Walsh was a great English teacher.
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The Stoics, Guest Lectures from Men who had seen things, lessons from war, prison, etc. Wisdom comes from experience, from being brought to the edge of the cliff, looking down into the abyse and coming back with a lesson from it. Having elder men who can impart those experiences would foster wisdom
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My physics teacher was very adament about the concept of how to think taking priority over what to think. When you were confused about something he would follow that with a line of questioning designed to self-guide to the answer to your original question. Sometimes frustrating, not always simple, but extremely effective. The amount of effort he put into framing the questions in a way that was actually beneficial and not just more confusing was honestly genius. Everyone just needs to ask more questions, is the moral of this story.
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Idk about wisdom in a government school. But a formal logic class would go a long way
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In my school there's a "Mentoring session" Where a select few teachers take a group of 5-7 kids, bring them together then discuss life, the affairs of our nations and all the serious talks. We were still middle schoolers back then and when I reflected about it after a decade passed, it was the best thing school ever did to me.
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Would be a class emphasizing individual thinking, and multiple solutions to a given problem. Emphasizing the arts and histories. And reminding people not to get too focused on one individual narrative.
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I had a class in college where they made us read a book about an investment firm, the book covered in detail how the companies the firm had invested on had been great successes and what not, we then had a test about the book, one of the questions being "if you where to invest in any of the companies of the book, which would it be and why?" The correct answer? None of them. All the companies the firm had invested on went bankrupt or where downright scams, this being found out after the book was published. The professor didn't fail anyone over It, but he Made sure the lesson was clear; don't take information at face value, always look deeper into available information. It'd look something like that.
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In Mexico we have a subject in the equivalent of highschool called "tutorías" and it's basically that. The classes that i remember are the ones where the teacher told us one life experience which affected him in a negative way and why he felt compelled at the time to do bad stuff. I would imagine something like that but structured in life lessons
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It would look like a home economics class got pregnant by a philosophy course while studying biblical teachings.
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When I was in high school, I was also in what is called the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program. As part of this program, we were required to take a class called "Theory of Knowledge" and it focused on metacognition. We took it both years (DP program is for 11th and 12th graders) and while the first year, taught by the AP Euro teacher was mostly focused on the definitions of words related to the class and such (it was pretty woke looking back at it), the second year it was taught by the APUSH and general history teacher. That second year I learned more about philosophy, philosophers, and philosophies than I did in my entire time in the public school system. We talked about Plato and Aristotle (something that is patently absent from the standard public school curriculum) all the way up to more recent thinkers like Baudrillard and Durkheim. It was probably my favorite class that year. We even did a Halloween special lecture about "spooky" philosophies like nihilism and absurdism. Honestly I think that man was my favorite teacher in all of K-12. It just goes to show how far gone the public school system is that the year after I graduated he left (I believe he was pressured to leave by the leadership of the school but the only evidence for this is that he was obviously Christian in a school that had openly gay faculty) to go teach at a Catholic school.
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It would be empty, because theres no way such a thing would be allowed in schools😂
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I think what made me humble was the times I got to see the struggles of the labour class. So I think students should visit farms, construction sites and other places ,where they got to see the people who are the backbone of society. It would make people appreciate each other more.
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Wisdom and common sense aren’t the same. Common sense is practical judgment, knowing what usually works in daily life. Wisdom looks deeper. It sees long term effects, values, and balance. Both grow through experience, not instruction. Common sense comes from trial, feedback, and social calibration. Wisdom comes from reflection, asking why things work, what they cost, and what they mean. You can’t teach either in a single course because they depend on lived context, mistakes, and time. A teacher can guide reflection but can’t replace it. They’re rare today because the conditions that once formed them have collapsed. Schools train intellect, not judgment. Technology shields us from consequence. Social media fractures shared reality into tribes, leaving no common ground for common sense. And the breakdown of family and intergenerational ties has cut the living chain that once passed them down. Wisdom and common sense survive only where people still pause, listen, and learn from consequence, in small, grounded communities that remember how to think together.
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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, a study of socialization and politics
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Marksmanship. Unironically, the concepts of layers of safety and fail-safe vs fail-deadly are intensely important for everyone to know.
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Classical music makes a great foundation for autotelic artistic appreciation
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If there was a course to teach wisdom and common sense in school, what would it look like?
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