[msg3]

But would you have been able to learn from those roles if school hadn't laid the groundwork?

You can't expect a school to teach every child every skill they need for their adult life. It sounds like you were able to teach yourself the skills you needed to succeed -- in my eyes, producing children able to self-teach is the sign of a very successful school system.

[ck425]

I suspect so though I can't definitively say. Most of my later learning involved making a ton of painful mistakes many of which I'm certain could have been avoided with some basic help. I genuinely can't link very much I learned in school to helping me learn later in life. Science report writing, one product design class and a school show I performed in are about it.

I can on the otherhand link many things I did outside of school at that time to things I learned later in life.

I don't disagree with your view that the point of school is to teach children to self-teach. But I do disagree that the school system I went through helped very much with that.

[msg3]

Fair enough, although I think you are maybe thinking a bit too narrowly about what school taught you. To get you to the point where you can write a scientific report takes an awful lot of learning... seems unfair to dismiss all of that.

[ck425]

Perhaps. I could already read well and write a little when I got to school at 4, so I'm perhaps dismissing it due to natural ability and good parenting.