I pretty much echo all the sentiments in this post. Like you, I enjoyed school. I mean, I don't know for sure my life wouldn't have been better if I hadn't had to go to school, but I very much doubt it.
I do wonder whether it's possible UK schools are generally slightly better than US ones, but I've no evidence for that.
I pretty much echo all the sentiments in this post. Like you, I enjoyed school. I mean, I don't know for sure my life wouldn't have been better if I hadn't had to go to school, but I very much doubt it.
I do wonder whether it's possible UK schools are generally slightly better than US ones, but I've no evidence for that.
It is true that school is the only place I've ever really felt physically threatened (and I was only very mildly bullied as a child and only for a couple of years). That's.... weird, but doesn't change my generally positive view of school. I did enjoy university more than school, but I think school was better than adult life (and my adult life isn't particularly bad).
I'd assume that bad experiences at school are correlated with bad alternative non-school experiences (if you're in a poor area etc.), so I wonder what the intersection in the Venn diagram of people who a) had a bad experience at school, and b) think that they would have had a much better non-school experience, looks like. Perhaps very introverted people with super nice home environments?
I pretty much echo all the sentiments in this post. Like you, I enjoyed school. I mean, I don't know for sure my life wouldn't have been better if I hadn't had to go to school, but I very much doubt it.
I do wonder whether it's possible UK schools are generally slightly better than US ones, but I've no evidence for that.
It is true that school is the only place I've ever really felt physically threatened (and I was only very mildly bullied as a child and only for a couple of years). That's.... weird, but doesn't change my generally positive view of school. I did enjoy university more than school, but I think school was better than adult life (and my adult life isn't particularly bad).
I'd assume that bad experiences at school are correlated with bad alternative non-school experiences (if you're in a poor area etc.), so I wonder what the intersection in the Venn diagram of people who a) had a bad experience at school, and b) think that they would have had a much better non-school experience, looks like. Perhaps very introverted people with super nice home environments?