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The Best Way to Learn Anything Comes Naturally
You don’t need school.
I was a terrible student.
My kindergarten teacher told my parents I would end up working in a strip club one day. She didn’t know the average stripper probably earned a lot more than she did, and was probably a lot happier.
Most of my teachers hated me, because I never paid attention. One time, my 7th grade science teacher tried to embarrass me by quizzing me in front of the entire class. I got all the questions right. After that, she left me alone. I was allowed to read or do whatever I wanted.
Sometimes, I wrote stories.
Other times, I put my head down and slept.
This continued through early high school, where they forced us to take classes we didn’t need, like typing. Things changed briefly when I tested into a gifted program, where I was treated differently. Then we moved, and I spent my senior year in the same intellectual pithole.
School wasn’t difficult, but I hated it.
I hated waking up at 6 am. I hated sitting in a room all day, listening to teachers repeat everything we’d just read from the textbook. I hated the lunches, which were loaded with fat and sodium but also left you starving two hours later. I hated being watched all the time, and…
