I didn't attend college until after I was in the workforce, so I graduated high school and went right to work. I don't feel I was missing anything. I did very well in corporate america with the skills I had at graduation.

However, I think NOW that schools should teach things like managing credit scores, spending, budgeting, interviewing, public speaking, making change and the like. Many people seem to lack these regular life skills.

I have several degrees including psychology, finance and communications. All that education gave me some skills but the university of life has been my best teacher.

Nikesh,

I loved Greek mythology, and it broadened my perspective and understanding of psychology.  It also kept me from being a unidem (one dimensional person) who can only talk on a few subjects like themselves and what they do.  I think one the greatest travesty in education is not emphasizing the liberal arts.  Business skills are easy to learn...Liberal arts broaden you and your understanding of manking at large.  We sure could use more of that these days.  A

I graduated 40 years ago and I wish I would have known what opportunities would be available for women. Coming from a small town I had no idea how big the world really was

I started off as a biology major and I got a minor in it. I also minored in philosophy, Spanish and history. I think I came out well rounded. 

More required foreign language would have helped and more required public speaking. Other than that it was pretty comprehensive.

More than one language would really help about now

Well I loved mythology and Biology.

But, I think there should have been a course on basic investments - so that people understand value of home ownership, how mortgages work, how investing and creating 401K plans, etc help.

BTW, I think my education prepared me VERY well for all of my jobs, including owning a business.

Time management - but I loved Greek mythology! 

My granddaughter is going to a liberal arts school and I'm seeing extactly what Ron and Alexandra Seigel commented. Learning "How to learn" like Debbie Gartner commented is so important.

None, actually. I took advantage of relevant electives in both high school and college and acquired additional skills through extra curricular activities such as Forensic League. That said, education is a life long process and I am a firm believer in continuing ed in general as well as for real estate.

This is an easy question for me...I wish I had continued with Spanish. I was good at it and it would help me to be more well-rounded. I also wish I would have paid more attention in psychology and that I would have persued more advanced classes.

     Perhaps some field trips to Civil Court (business lawsuits), and to some Corporate offices, to see how "the real world" works.   It is one thing in theory, it is something else in real life.

   Also, how to sell your product and service, and how to sell yourself. 

   And, "Dale Carnegie" people skills.

I wish I learned to type. 

Seriously learning a second language. 

Everyone in school should learn how to calculate monthly payments on the HP10B-II  !!! Now a $5.99 APP for your I-Phone

Well, my major was Biology.... and I loved every minute of it.... however, I would have enjoyed a class in creative writing.... I may take one now at a local college.

of course, had I known that new construction was going to be my main focus in real estate, a building construction program would have made a great minor....agents today would be wise to enroll in a "methods and materials" course....

I wish I had learned goal setting skills. 

I wish, they invited more ''real'' agents. I think, I got 0 value from attending RE school. 

Just memorize the answers for test, pass the test and dive in. 

I learned a lot in school, but most of it was preparation for what I would learn after school.

And that learning journey continues today and throughout life.

Education is always what you take from it and what you make of it. A friend of mine attended a quality undergraduate program though not in the top ranked schools. He maximized the opportunity he had there. I graduated from a top undergraduate program- and because of the effort he put in- I would say we both got the most of our college years. Lesson learned, it's less about the school and more about the individual.

School was many decades ago and I think it served me well.  However, the one thing I wished I'd learned back then is the power of residual income.  Oh for a time machine!

For real estate, four years of psychology would not have come amiss 

Totally agree about the gap (aka LACK) in our education system.

We don't need to wish. If you want to learn something, do it!

Not an issue for me... I have a degree in Public and International Affairs with a second major in Russian language and a minor in Mandarin; an MA in Russian studies; and an MBA in Finance and Management. What skills I needed in the "real world" including almost 20 years in corporate finance and now 25 years in real estate were pretty much covered through my educational background and practical experience.

Multiple languages.  

And I wish I remembered more from the days taking Greek Mythology and Biology.  

I want to learn more about selling Commercial property.

I wish I knew more about computers

I was very focused and the classes that I took have served me well!

Computer programming.

There is a big difference between education and training.  Education helps you to learn critical thinking skills and helps to broaden your knowledge base. Training is something else.  We get lots of opportunity for training throughout our lives, but a lot of us end our education with a diploma.  That's too bad.  

My thoughts have nothing in particular to do with real estate, but in life itself, most were learned the hard way.  School did little to prepare for everyday living, like interviewing for a job or how to open and balance a checkbook, parenting skills, goal setting.

Ditto Ron and Alexandra Seigel Liberal arts prepares one for life time of learning.

I always believed that having a second language was the way to go especially if one was to live in CA or any border town. You don't think you will ever use it until you do and then it goes to work...

Time management, negotiation and ethics courses.

I wish I had learned to speak Spanish.  It would make my life easier now as a realtor in Texas.  

I didn't go to college-I wich my High School had a home finance course or business course-I went to a private college prep school, so there were 0 classes on basic life.

I majored in finance and went to law school. I thought I was well prepared to open a real estate office. The practical skills needed to be learned on the job.

I didn't start college until I was 39 and figuring out what I wanted to do when I grew up!  I'd have to say creating a business plan to be more effective at acomplishing my goals.  I went from school straight into real estate school and had always co-owned businesses with my former husband.  He had written business plans while I did the behind the scenes work, so did not know what it would take to accomplish goals.  Had to learn that the hard way!

Time management! Yes we were responsible to turn in assignments on time and what not but actually more so focus on the topic of time management a bit.

Hmmmmm, you mean "Looking forward" . . . because what is done is done. The gap between our education system and post-work upon graduation is: Ethics.  Thankfully, it's not the skill I need to acquire.  If "school" taught ETHICS . . . of all things:  Human dignity, human value, human worth, ethics in business, ethics in medicine, ethics in law . . . and not the Harvard Business School model of churning out criminals since 1908, we might actually have a chance.  Everything, and I mean everything in "business" is created to make money . . . and there is no emphasis in the "business models" for ethical behavior.  It's an "algorithm," a mathematical formula, a batch data set . . . and the "human factor" is removed, as is the ETHICAL display of human interaction in the form of business commerce.     Pity.

Negotiations! My nursing back ground prepared me for dealing with the stress of a move and lots of psychology.

I went to school to become an engineer.  Never did learn very much about becoming a business person.

None.  Wish I actually learned Spanish instead of barely getting a C by the skin of my teeth.  Even the oddball courses I took like "Religion and the Environment" or Paintball or SCUBA have taught be great skills that have come in handy.

A highly skilled BS detector.  Those personal skills of reading people. I do not believe that can be taught ... we learn it via the school of life and the school of hard knocks. 

I wish I had taken up used car selling skills to woo buyers.....

Public speaking

Kat Palmiotti nailed this one!

You really can't look back! Maybe would have majored in real estate!

I think I wish I would've "perfected" my drums a bit better if it were me. Just stuff like that.

Nikesh Parekh - "the survival of the fittest - and be the fittest in any situation" is what I learned from my IIT days...

Better job skills

I definitely should had paid more attention to my accounting class and statistics, since I have had to re learn most of all, when I opened my own business, and I couldn't afford to hire a full time accountant, I had to learn in a hurry a bunch of the basics.

Maybe if the schools were more in touch with the industries and jobs of the present, they could do a better job of incorporating more hands on experience.