21st Century Collaborative Essay

It is hard to think that what we are instructing our children will not be very useful to them in the future. How many of us and how many children know what is beneficial? When I took shorthand in highschool I needed it as an elective. Years later it is a skill that I can't imagine not having learned. I would be useless in my classes had it not been for that skill. There is never a real stamp on what is actually needed for the future. Look at all of the thousands of dollars that graduate students pay and what do they use when they actually graduate?