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Please let me know where all these kids who love school are.

Besides, it doesn't matter what your schooling is as much. Someone who has rich parents and a high school diploma has a higher income than someone with poor parents and a college degree.

Also, you can educate yourself for free on the Internet. I learned more this way than I did in college.




> Please let me know where all these kids who love school are.

Oh, they exist. They're smack in the middle of the IQ standard distribution curve, that part of the curve for which the educational system was designed. They don't have to be dissuaded from original thoughts, or curiosity, or a tendency to question what they're taught, because these are inbred instincts.


The kids at my school who were average didn't love school. They'd rather be playing outside. What school did you go to?


This I agree with strongly.

It's hard for kids to love school; schools are prison. The only cases of people liking school I know were: a/ the bullies, b/ people in schools that are not run like prisons (my high school was that), c/ kids who developed Stockholm syndrome towards the school.

I suspect that c/ is actually an important goal of schooling - because such people make great employees later.


I loved school because I enjoyed learning and was the top of the class. I had a compulsion to finish every test first, and have the highest score. IMO, I was born to learn, and would have succeeded in almost any type of educational system.




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