That’s why I said “supposed to do”. The core argument behind schooling is that we can make a person much more capable by exposing them to things they would not otherwise be exposed to, and that it is valuable to give a broad background in many different topics. Fundamentally this is similar to what you’re suggesting, and the differences you point out just indicate that school has a bad choice of curriculum and teaches it badly. The primary novelty in what you’re suggesting is that you want “a lot of different type of experience” with a shallow view on each topic (“a different profession… every day”), whereas school typically spends a lot of time on a couple of different topics but with essentially the same type of experience. I do not intend to comment on whether I think this will work better.
For the record, I don’t know what Toastmasters does, but the schools I’ve to had Drama class and occasionally required giving presentations.
That’s why I said “supposed to do”. The core argument behind schooling is that we can make a person much more capable by exposing them to things they would not otherwise be exposed to, and that it is valuable to give a broad background in many different topics. Fundamentally this is similar to what you’re suggesting, and the differences you point out just indicate that school has a bad choice of curriculum and teaches it badly. The primary novelty in what you’re suggesting is that you want “a lot of different type of experience” with a shallow view on each topic (“a different profession… every day”), whereas school typically spends a lot of time on a couple of different topics but with essentially the same type of experience. I do not intend to comment on whether I think this will work better.
For the record, I don’t know what Toastmasters does, but the schools I’ve to had Drama class and occasionally required giving presentations.