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How important is school compared to the rest our lives?
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How important is school compared to the rest our lives?

Today, I was bored and I decided to calculate: "Excluding sick days, if I was do the minimum required schooling of my country (up until the age of 16), how much of my life would I have spent sitting behind a desk, listening to a teacher?", then adding the extra two years I could be doing in high school.

My results:
The minimum schooling requirement: 7 years (and a bit more)
... with the two extra years: 8 years 4 months 6 days 15 hours 12 minutes

On both of these... they equate to nearly half my life. (bleh, is really that long? Goingcrazy) I still have the compulsory exams of my country to do this year, and then I've got 3 options. I can either: get a job, vocational schooling, or suck up to my school for two more years to get the grades for going to a university. Since finding out this personal statistic, I've been wondering about how much I would really get out of school. I would like to do be some sort of designer/artist (architecture, art, engineering, e.t.c.) and I really don't want to work in a soul-crushing monotonous atmosphere of an office.
I'm interested to ask a few questions to users:

1) To what extent was/is listening to a teacher useful in your normal life?
2) How did you get to working your job? (If you don't have a job, feel free to skip this question.)
3) If you've left school, do you still keep in contact with your high school friends? If not, tell how long it took to stop contacting each other.
4) How useful is going to uni? (I would be very interested in the employability rates of a graduate.)
5) How long after leaving school did it take to forget "school"?
6) If you have a job/go to school, how do you manage not to get your soul crushed?

I ask those questions, since at school, you cannot "see" completely of your options by relying on one answer completely, especially if the person speaking to me did a completely different field to what you want to do Confused, or is inclined to lie (e.g. teachers). If I keep being told about the relevance of high school, on either side of the argument and am intelligent enough to know that a qualification might be worthless for getting a job, how relevant is school v.s. the rest your our lives?

EDIT: I accidentally edited the OP's original post and had to restore it. Sorry bout that.
(This post was last modified: 11-05-2014 01:15 PM by James Comey.)
10-31-2014 07:03 AM
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How important is school compared to the rest our lives? - threeweekSlater - 10-31-2014 07:03 AM

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