A Practical Education

Practical subjects should take precedence. How do businesses really operate? How does your plumbing basically work? The common objects in your kitchen, bathroom, bedroom.
One must organize and devise a system according to its purpose, from your clothes drawer to a government.
Reason and experience must work together. Observation and experimentation. Theory and practice consistent with each other.
Experience fully, not just book learning, this is key.
The books I read will fall into 3 categories, useful, educational, or entertaining.
From simple to complex, step by step. Look for fundamental purposes and the big picture
An education which involves the student in the real process. For example immersion in history by placing them physically in a stone age situation with according technology or Egyptian old kingdom or Victorian industrial age to modern settings. Taking the intellectual journey through lessons in art, the religious practices, the technology, the human mindset, the cultural practices. Practice of skills at each according period from ancient man to modern man.
Following good models, learning from successful approaches. A good way to learn is through mimicry at first.
If what you're doing isn't working, try a different approach.
Never quit the correct course of action. Lessons such as this are generally not taught in classrooms. Life lessons tend to be learned outside of academics.
Look for the practical benefit of learning chemistry or other. One can know how to make perfumes, and many things besides.
Educating one on how to build their own civilization, the basics. Basic survival and settlement skills. How to make fire, how to build a simple primitive house, how to make a gnomon. Lessons on making good rules and laws, experience in performing basic medicine and healing, carpentry, simple masonry, baking bread, hunting, making beer, ironworking. Moral rules. Lessons in good hygiene. Lessons in methods and practices.
What it means to be an expert, what standards? Novice, Journeyman, Expert, Master. How much time, and what performance level?
People experience, places experience.
Technologies should be put to your use and benefit. Technology is a powerful thing. Use it.
To be skilled at thinking, imagining, the intellectual processes.
Modern survival practices in the current modern environment. For example doing resumes and interviewing. Basic auto repair, tax return filing. Develop a high general modern life competence level.
Research to find the most interesting educational resources, info, tools, and aids.