Common sense: A parental legacy

School are created to teach certain forms of knowledge like reading, writing and arithmetic, while parents should be expected to teach the most essential skill of all: Common sense. This knowledge is generally gained through observation and absorption of some live example.

Parents often believe that school should teach everything and confuse scholastic teaching with basic, everyday life instruction, putting all these forms of learning in one single bag and wrongly believing that schools will provide their offspring with a useful blend of both; in reality, this won't happen.

The end result is that kids may learn great intellectual skills but will get woefully shortchanged in learning this all-important life skill that is good basic common sense.