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It's because school is a shitty, shitty place no matter if you go to a good one or a bad one.

No, there are no good schools.

High schools went downhill when teachers stopped spinning homespun silk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system



> No, there are no good schools.

Wew. I find this remarkable that someone has been in every school of the world and is now posting here to report back on his experience.


It's terrible that something that should have been wonderful was so painful for you. I've completed 11 years of post secondary spread pretty evenly over 30+ years of adulthood and loved it more and more as I've continued. Thinking about starting a PhD in year 50!


College was a vacation after high school. It's famously a place some people try to stick around after they could leave.

Loving higher ed is pretty common. Loving high school, way, way less so.


Did you enjoy school while growing up?

I occasionally feel the calling to go back to school for the sheer joy of learning and mastery. It’s an odd feeling though, because I always hated school, from elementary to undergrad.




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