Writing is a very productive way to think . I always loved school and did exceptionally well, but I consider schooling to be the least of my education . People who knew me in school would probably all be very surprised that I am now an ardent unschooling advocate. As much as I respect the particular teachers that I was fortunate to have, I still am not happy with how the overall schooling experience influenced my personality. I realized this approximately the first day out of grad school.
School necessarily teaches competition and obedience, instead of co-operation. .
But then, I've tried to forget those experiences as quickly as possible. I have served as a beta tester for several of these that are now household names. . It had a phenomenal number of footnotes, which I had never encountered much before. I remember being very, very impressed by this one certain fellow who kept turning up as the source of the most interesting quotes. Correction I pretty much stopped reading books about seven years ago, when I dove into the Internet. .