> I realise I hated the system more than the subject
Wow, you're right, I feel the same way
> I sometimes wish I could go and tell my younger self to skip school but there you go hindsight is 20/20.
You could consider homeschooling your kids should you decide to have any.
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The more I read about education, the more I feel this is the better option for parents who can have a flexible schedule, such as programmers who seem more and more to be able to work from home.
I'd love to live in a community some day where there are a lot of home-schooled kids where they can also do some activities together. I don't know if that is a thing or not but it should be!
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I was homeschooled, and I agree that it is great if the parents can make the effort. I think that homeschooling gets an undeserved bad reputation for the perceived "brainwashing" but if it is done right then that is not an issue at all. It does allow the individual learner to excel at what they are good at, though. Once I learned to read my education was very self-driven and I came out very well-rounded because I would read tons (probably literally) of books about anything that interested me; I notice a lot of people identify themselves as a "math person" or an "English person" and I was never like that. I also agree that having other home-schooled kids around is nice; socialization is one of the primary arguments for public schooling but if you have it while homeschooling you've hit the jackpot.
Wow, you're right, I feel the same way
> I sometimes wish I could go and tell my younger self to skip school but there you go hindsight is 20/20.
You could consider homeschooling your kids should you decide to have any.
[tangent] The more I read about education, the more I feel this is the better option for parents who can have a flexible schedule, such as programmers who seem more and more to be able to work from home.
I'd love to live in a community some day where there are a lot of home-schooled kids where they can also do some activities together. I don't know if that is a thing or not but it should be! [/tangent]