Quote Originally Posted by lbj123
Because the only way to learn to think is in school. Because the only way to learn how to be artistic is in art class. Because helping people is impossible unless you take PE, right? People don't decide what they want to be in school. Schools don't teach kids how to do taxes, how to be police officers, how to sit at a desk slaving away in front of a computer. As people grow older they start to learn the kinds of things they enjoy and base their career decisions off of those.
Nope, but the easiest and more efficient way to gain such a variety of necessary skills is to attend school. Humans are not smart enough, 99.9%, of the time to be self taught in subjects like chemistry, math, physics, and reading.

We don't teach kids those things in school, but we teach them the pieces they need to be successful at those things. You learn math, cognitive decision making, and language rules in school so that they may be successful accountants, cops, and programmers.

Show me an example of a person who never went to school and became successful and I will be more open to your theory that school is useless. Remember, you're not the first to question whether school is necessary or not. In just about every society in the world, a form of schooling structure is used because it is the BEST way to make your society more efficient and intelligent.