Well our educational system may not be all that it could be but even when it was at its best, "survival skills" were never part of the curriculum. Typically one would join the Boy Scouts for that sort of thing.
While it would definitely be a real bummer to lose our technology, people would adapt to the new situation very quickly. After all, 99.999% of the human race lived without all the modern conveniences we take for granted today and we are capable of doing so once again.
The notion that people would not be able to survive because they can't use their iPods or watch television is ludicrous. Electricity is simply not necessary for human survival and while civilization as we know it would be severely disrupted without it, we would very quickly adapt and before you know it, life will get back to normal and who knows, it might even be better.
Yes, most would be lost without electricity. In the process of change, many would perish. You are not looking at the whole picture - no food (except non perishable), no uncontaminated water supply, no lights, no heat, no air conditioning. Many would perish within the first few month.
The young would have a better chance of survival, but for many, no...
And of course that would bring on disease which could not be contained with all the dead (no more generation of vaccines - heck, they would all be trying to survive themselves). That would accelerate the death rate by another factor.