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education is over-rated ; it's too easy to confuse it with learning and with intelligence.
i was lucky : i went to experimental (*cough*hippie*cough*) schools where i had a lot of liberty to create my own education. teachers didn't watch me too closely or keep much of a leash on me, and i did mostly whatever i wanted. among other things, it allowed me to take classes for later years in advance, including college classes during high school (for high school and college credit, which later allowed me to graduate college early) in the subjects that interested me (mainly art and litterature, but also marine biology because it was the only biology class which involved no dissection). if i had been with less understanding teachers, or they had tried to put me back on some kind of rails, i probably would not have stayed in school.
it was a good system for me, because i was interested in a lot of things and "worked well without supervision". it was a really poor system for other people who needed more structure.
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