Should life skills education be prioritized over traditional academics in schools?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Should life skills education be prioritized over traditional academics in schools?". Your opponent's style: Fools

you cannot google courage, you cannot download resilience, you cannot copy paste integrity, everything academics teaches you can find online everything lifeskills builds you cannot find anywhere exept inside yourselves

You've just proven why academics matter. You needed sophisticated language to *express* that insight. Without literacy, logic, and critical thinking, you're stuck with feelings you can't articulate or defend. Where'd you learn to argue like that?

for your kind info language was developed to support lifeskills and to develop lifeskills like to communicate and coordinate and understand the feelings.

Wrong direction. Language evolved to transmit *knowledge*, not feelings. You're confusing communication with competence. If lifeskills built language, why do illiterate societies still have courage? Why does every successful culture prioritize teaching their children to read, calculate, and think first?

thinking in a good direction and taking the appropriate decision is a lifeskills which helps a person to excel in his/her life

That's circular logic. Good thinking *requires* academic foundations. Math teaches logical reasoning. Literature teaches perspective-taking. History teaches consequence analysis. Without those frameworks, your "appropriate decisions" are just gut feelings dressed up as wisdom.