>>936030833 (OP)
Public school tried to indoctrinate me. With two older sisters, an unreliable mom, and dad who was always working or sleeping, I learned to never trust anybody before I was sent to school. 1st grade teacher reinforced that by giving F's to two of us on a math test... which later she realized us 2 "failures" had wrong copies that got mixed in with the current stack.
I'm in my 50's so we didn't have internet to use back then, but the library back then wasn't polluted like it is now, loads of good books to learn from. Teachers never got through the whole textbooks, I read through everything. Plenty of art and science to learn outside of class.
History classes are heavy on indoctrination, history teachers hated me when I questioned and brought copies from history books, got me banned from using the copiers.
Math teachers were frustrated that I was advanced and some wanted me to tutor sports players... didn't involve myself with those useless people.
My last schooling was a tech school for CAD, egotistical instructors didn't like that I already knew about half the stuff and picked up lessons fast. 24 people in the class, 6 of us left at the end earned the degree.
Worked at many different companies designing and making loads of different crap and learned enough to put me just below a Masters in engineering. Terrifying how sloppy engineers are at Boeing. Medical devices have ridiculously tight regulations. Injections molds are in fact massively expensive to machine.
When I think about it if I had just went-with-the-flow in school I'd probably be working retail or food service like most my former classmates... the typical mindless menial labor that schools prepare you for.
Today I run my own CNC business.
