If you were in charge of Education

What would you change about pre-college schooling?  For example, what classes would you offer prior to college?

Philosophy
Sociology
Game theory
Physics
Business management
Stock market/real estate
Calculus
Computer hardware
Programming
Electronics
Logic
Study techniques
Vocabulary
Chaos theory
Quantum physics
Overview of everything in existence

>>24
I agree with the direction you set but some things, I think are impractical.

Why give kids electives?  Seriously, what's the benefit of that?  Kids are stupid and they don't know what they want.  At that age, they should be forced to go through all the 'basic' stuff so they get all of that set.  Yes, some of the stuff will be extremely boring for most of the class but it's needed.  If kids don't learn to endure at that age, it'll be that much harder for them to learn to at an older age.

We had 75 minute periods in school and I think that was just at our limits.  Two bloody hours of class time is hard enough in university, where students are serious caue they're paying money out of their pockets, nevermind in highschool and younger.  Definitely need more than 45 minutes though.

Agree with the rest of the stuff you suggested though.  But I seriously disagree with the electives stuff at such a young age.  Kids don't know what they want.  And all the elective systems I've been in tend to be cumulative, ie. year 3 of subject x requires year 2 and year 1.  So that means if you suddenly decide to change interests, you're screwed.