Many school principals in Germany believe that more life skills should be taught in the classroom.
According to a representative survey of 1116 school administrations, 93 percent of those questioned are in favor of it.
In the "school management study" for Cornelsen Verlag published on Wednesday, they said that this could better prepare students for adulthood and the world of work.
The subjects of “digital education and maturity” (92 percent), “health and nutrition” (90 percent) and “democracy” (88) were particularly important to those surveyed.
82 percent also believe that the traditional canon of subjects is no longer up-to-date and call for a fundamental overhaul.
The educational researcher Klaus Hurrelmann, who was involved in the study, spoke of a wide range: everyday, economic and financial skills or health issues can no longer be expressed in subjects with specialist teachers.
Strategies such as interdisciplinary or problem- and project-based teaching are strongly favored by school administrations in Germany.
He hopes for a political discussion about it, said Hurrelmann.
The education policy spokeswoman for the FDP parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Ria Schröder, agreed: "The interdisciplinary nature of reality and the teaching with sharply defined subjects could not be a stronger contrast," she told the German Press Agency.
"That has nothing to do with individual, talent-related support for the students."