[lelandbatey]

I didn't get the feeling that school is there to teach kids how to teach themselves. That is very much a skill that I had to learn outside of school. School, even in a very nice area with excellent schools, felt like a long exercise in checking boxes.

There are things that did teach me "how to learn" but they only arose outside of school and after high school. There are things that have given me a fearless desire to learn, and the confidence to know that there's nothing I can't come to understand if I am willing to apply myself. However, none of those things happened inside of the traditional school system.