Property into trust fund instead of paying probate

securityguy

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Probably computer science as they're more likely to pick up bad habits or misconceptions in school which then have to be unlearned.

We used to think that. The results say otherwise.

Malthusian

I am interested in finance and if someone had tried to teach me about probate of all things at school I would have taken the opportunity to have a nap and be refreshed for proper lessons. How much interest do you think teenagers who aren't future MSE members are likely to show? They aren't likely to need the lessons for 30 years or more, by which time if they're lucky they will have forgotten it, and if they are unlucky they will remember scraps of something that is completely out of date.

I agree that schools could do better at teaching children life skills, specifically those of rationality, skepticism and scientific enquiry, which would make them much less susceptible to scams. Teaching them how probate works is pointless; opening their minds so that when someone says "probate is really complicated but I have a magic solution that will make it easy for just a hmmenehhmmenehhmmeneh" they question what they're being told - that's what's of value to them. However that is not going to happen under the present educational system where 2+2=4 is held to be less important than respecting the beliefs and cultures of people who say that 2+2=5.

securityguy

Malthusian wrote: »

I agree that schools could do better at teaching children life skills, specifically those of rationality, skepticism and scientific enquiry,

Give a man a fish, teach a man to fish, etc. Schools should be teaching people how to investigate and learn, not facts about particular topics. The nonsense we get into when people say they have "researched" vaccines, probate and so on, but in fact have googled uncritically and been unable to make judgements about the credibility of what they have read, is not fixed by attempting to teach people everything about vaccines and probate. It's fixed by giving the the critical skills to lean. Otherwise, it's saying that you can't do anything which is new since you were 18.