"True" ... but it's partly because when you're young and know everything there seems to be no reason to learn. As you get older and realize you don't ... learning becomes more important. :))
Yes and no. I was really blessed to have some amazing teachers, and while the information I got from them pales in comparison to what I've learned since, they primed me for the experience. I had a second-grade teacher who was always trying new things, from new desk layouts to holding class outside. She taught me about Native American cultures and laid the groundwork for me to accept, understand, and identify with other cultures. I had a third-grade teacher who was all about science, tech, and culture. He taught us about how tech would shape the future- everything from solar to the internet- at a time when nobody knew what those things were. He taught us about Thailand. With both of them, as the years passed, I was excited to learn and ty new things. Plus, I was really able to soak up those cultures and their histories- purely because I was primed to hold them in high regard from a young age. When I learned about WWI, WWII, and Vietnam, I was better able to understand why those conflicts happened and why the harm caused reverberates through society today. Now that I know what happened to Native Americans and Mexicans in Arizona, I'm utterly horrified by what (white) Americans did to them, and I can totally see how the laws today specifically target certain groups because I understand who created them and under what circumstances. I would not have the same comprehension if I wasn't taught about culture early on. I'd be like, "This was history and it happened. Get over it." So, no, I didn't learn anything compared to what I know now, but I'm eternally grateful for my public school teachers because they set the foundation for what I've been able to absorb.
A good education lays the foundation for lifelong learning.. The phrase lifelong learning was very popular here in the UK and school education was very much seen as laying the foundation to teach kids HOW to learn... I personally love that and in my opinion that's how it should be.
I had some awesome teachers.. some awesomely horrible ones too.. but each taught me something valuable.
OK maybe but is it helping you or doing you any good? I was never a big fan of formal schooling but a lot of things you best need to learn formally cause you can't just by doing them the way I did. I left school (in my case private schooling) at 17 and never really used the net until I was in my early 50s so there was a gap of some 34 years there I had to learn other ways - mostly from keeping my eyes and ears open and asking people for help.
