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Departments of education and school districts always have to make decisions about what to include in their curriculum.  There are a lot of life skills that people need that aren't taught in school.  The question is should those skills be taught in schools?I teach high school, so I'll talk about that.  The typical high school curriculum is supposed to give students a broad-based education that prepares them to be citizens in a democracy and to be able to think critically.  For a democracy to work, we need educated, discerning citizens with the ability to make good decisions based on evidence and objective thought.  In theory, people who are well informed about history, culture, science, mathematics, etc., and are capable of critical, unbiased thinking, will have the tools to participate in a democracy and make good decisions for themselves and for society at large.  In addition to that, they should be learning how to be learners, how to do effective, basic research, and collaborate with other people.  If that happens, figuring out how to do procedural tasks in real life should not provide much of a challenge.  We can't possibly teach every necessary life skill people need, but we can help students become better at knowing how to acquire the skills they need.  Should we teach them how to change a tire when they can easily consult a book or search the internet to find step by step instructions for that?  Should we teach them how to balance a check book or teach them how to think mathematically and make sense of problems so that the simple task of balancing a check book (which requires simple arithmetic and the ability to enter numbers and words in columns and rows in obvious ways) is easy for them to figure out.  If we teach them to be good at critical thinking and have some problem solving skills they will be able to apply those overarching skills to all sorts of every day tasks that shouldn't be difficult for someone with decent cognitive ability  to figure out.  It's analogous to asking why a culinary school didn't teach its students the steps and ingredients to a specific recipe.  The school taught them about more general food preparation and food science skills so that they can figure out how to make a lot of specific recipes without much trouble.  They're also able to create their own recipes.So, do we want citizens with very specific skill sets that they need to get through day to day life or do we want citizens with critical thinking, problem solving, and other overarching cognitive skills that will allow them to easily acquire ANY simple, procedural skill they may come to need at any point in their lives?

This is the mistake committed by millions in India every year. Since they don’t buy life insurance policy for covering life risk but as an “Investment” and then get trapped for many years.Traditional plans - In case of policy term upto 10 years, minimum 2 years premium must be paid in order to get “surrender value.” In case of policies beyond 10 years, minimum 3 years premium must be paid in order to get “surrender value.” (not partial withdrawal). Usually insurance company deducts first year’s premium from all premiums paid till date and apply surrender factor to remaining amount to arrive at Surrender Value. Hence, one looses on investment if surrendered before 10 -11 years. This is case with typical LIC plans.I think some companies have introduced some flexible products recently to allow partial withdrawal. You need to check with those companies.ULIP’s - After introduction of 2010 guidelines, revamped ULIPs allow partial withdrawal of funds after completion of 5 years of policy term.

This is a question that is better answered by MetLife than people on Quora.I cannot speak for MetLife, but most life insurers are very quick at providing loans against the cash value of a policy (I assume that is what you meant in your question). I would be surprised if it took longer than a week for you to receive it. Let me repeat that you should be asking MetLife about this, not us.

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If you are not married, and have no dependents, then you don't need life insurance.If you are married and your spouse also works, one year's salary is enough insurance for them to cover funeral expenses, mourn, and move to a smaller home and sell the current house if needed.If you have dependents, and/or your spouse doesn't work, the situation becomes very dependent on your personal finances overall. Assuming you are a one-income household, with two pre-school aged children, you may want to consider a total life insurance value equal to enough money to cover:-Cost of paying off your mortgage immediately-Cost of fixed annuity to pay for annual expenses for your spouse, less housing cost-Children's educational expensesThat's the most common rule of thumb, but you should consider whether it is an outdated notion that your spouse will never be able to work or provide for themselves if you die.Also, whether you believe that parents should pay for a child's college education, or even whether a child needs to go to college (or a state school vs. private school) can impact that part of the equation.As you age, you will likely set aside 529 plans for your kids, pay down your mortgage, etc. In that case, you should adjust the total value of your insurance downward to save yourself on monthly premium costs. The very wealthy self-insure for the most part - you want to move in that direction as your personal wealth increases.Finally, don't mix investments with insurance. Insurance is for protection only. Therefore, "buy term and invest the rest" is the best advice. Whole insurance makes it difficult to remember how much you are spending on the insurance part, and how much you're investing.

Why can’t we reduce the amount of forms we have to fill out in our life?Very rarely does anybody have to fill out forms without a purpose, mostly because once you fill it out, somebody has to process and data entry the thing, and nobody likes doing that for pointless forms.So.. what thing that requires a form do you want to get rid of? Because you don’t just get rid of the form, you get rid of whatever that form is designed to do.You want a driver’s license or license plates? There’s going to be a form, because they can’t give you those without collecting the needed information.Do you thing getting rid of driver’s licenses or license plates is a good idea?When I take my car to a mechanic, there’s always a form to fill out, that lists among other things, the work authorized to be done, the estimated cost, and an upper cost limit they can’t exceed without further authorization (in case problems are found during the work - the additional work may cost more than the value of the car if it’s older. It also limits the ability of shady mechanics to run up the price tag with “Oh, we also had to fix this” claims.I’m personally happy to have my copy of a form that says exactly what my mechanic was supposed to do - it comes in handy if I have to sue them, The fact I have my copy in my backpack seems to keep them honest. Funny, that…Would you think getting rid of that form would be a good idea?When I moved into this apartment building a few years ago, one of the forms I had to sign was a statement by the leasing company that (a) the building was built before 1970 and (b) they were unable to guarantee that there was no lead-based paint. But that disclosure was legally required, because even today, there are *still* cases of 2 year olds finding flaking paint chips, eating them, and ending up severely messed up because it was lead-based paint, and lead is bad for growing baby brains.And although I’m old enough to be retired and wise enough to not eat paint chips, the family upstairs with the small kids is probably at least glad to have the heads-up, and call the maintenance crew at the first sign of flaking paint…Do you think it would be a good idea to let landlords claim “Oh, we told the tenants about known dangers that might be present”? Or make them keep paperwork that proved the tenants signed a form stating they were indeed told?