Quote Originally Posted by coledog855
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.
While you do speak the truth, for the most part, school is also a great way to indoctrinate children to certain beliefs. My main example for this would be the ridiculous "zero tolerance" policies popping up in many elementary, middle, and high schools. Personally, I believe that our educational system is currently flawed. Although, it does pump out obedient working snitches who support things like the drug war, and other non-sense.