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Originally posted by Hylas
... I mean, school shouldn't discourage people, but that's what it does most of the time...

Very true, instead of discouraging people to do things, it should rather encourage them to do so. School, nevertheless, will always be important, there you acquire a lot of knowledge you will really need in life, wether you want this knowledge or not. As far as I know, the academic level in most of US schools is low. Ironic, that in south american countries you find much higher academic levels than in what is supposed to be "the most advanced country in the world" (of course, universities are another story )

What's sad nowadays is that most of people do not learn anything from school, since they just use their "RAM" memory: they use it for the exams, but then they discard all of that knowledge, not keeping it on their "hard drive." Think about it and you know what I mean...