Do you think, as a lawyer, it would be helpful for everyone to know a little bit of law? To be able to more effectively navigate day to day things like contracts, leases, understanding of rights etc.?
A more proper analogy is: do you think it would be helpful to everyone to know the process for making laws?
Yeah, I think you're right.
I'm not a lawyer but I do think that knowing the basics of day-to-day law like you said would actually be really nice. Maybe it would have helped people who were signing up for extremely risky mortgages around 2007 to better understand their real contractual obligations for re-payment, at a time when the banker they were dealing with was probably failing to highlight the fact that the payments would dramatically increase beyond the introductory period? I'm just speculating.
Not just law. That's what an education means - you are educated, if you have a broad general knowledge of just about everything. Plus some specilization in your field. Education these days seems to focus too narrowly on the specialization, without the general knowledge.