<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">It seems likely that there is some sampling bias in this nerdy chat group.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 17, 2023, at 1:40 PM, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">For me, school was better than having nothing to do all day (though that was rarely the case on non-school days). Is that loving it? It's certainly not hating it.</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 9:08 AM Gadersd via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">You loved school? That is honestly the first time I have ever heard someone say that.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 17, 2023, at 11:59 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Look, we can't blame it all on the schools. I loved school and where I went was the same as anywhere else. In fact, in college I took a dozen courses or more that were not required. If the teacher was bad I just sat in class and read forward in the text. You can't keep an interested man down. bill w </div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 4:14 PM MB via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br class="">
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Gadersd via extropy-chat wrote:<br class="">
> I would have loved that school as a child. It would have saved me from so much trauma and I was at the top of my class. Not everyone from the bottom of the class even survived.<br class="">
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I hear you - and I wonder what *I* would have done with my life had I <br class="">
been exposed to such a choice of interests. I was at the top of my <br class="">
class until highschool, and then schooling killed any interest I had in <br class="">
learning anything for many many years. As my older brothers told me, <br class="">
"Don't worry, it gets better when you're out of school." We all hated it.<br class="">
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What a terrible pity and a waste.<br class="">
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Regards,<br class="">
MB<br class="">
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