Did school kill your desire to learn?

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school, in general, didn't kill my desire to learn. Research papers do, though. Every time I have to write one, I recognize the bliss of ignorance. And over time I've developed a concept that it is best to live your life as ignorantly as you comfortably can.

Well, I was put into certain gifted classes, but I sorta know what you mean. Still, even when school didn't stimulate me, I always had books, and later the Internet, to learn from. Frank Zappa always talked about how it was better to go out and read about these things for yourself rather than have it force-fed to you in a restrictive school environment. It's one of the many interesting insights Frank offered in his lifetime (along with "Watch out where those huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow").

It almost did...I can definitely identify with the sentiment. College is much, much better, though.

School didn't. School related stress did.

- Kodachrome

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Foru ... 3&t=192363

Only tangenitally related, but I think it's really quite good. (You need to follow the link, and then follow the link from there... the AoPS commentary is interesting enough that I didn't link directly to the article.)

I stopped caring about school when I realised I was smarter than the teachers. Even at college, some of the lecturers killed my desire to learn. I just read tons of books now.

I always agreed with the part about "It's a wonder I can think at all."

I enjoy learning new things too. I've taught myself alot about computers, or figured things out on my own. However, I never really enjoyed school because it seemed that getting the grades was more about playing NT social games than it was about learning or mastering a subject. I was never good at those games, so I often had problems and my parents love to rub my face in it, using phrases like "you have no personality" or "you have to learn to be glib."

College was a little better, but the problem with college when I was there, and today, is there are alot of older people going back to school and the professors seem to think if you're say under 25-30 and going to college, you're more concerned with partying than you are with learning, so they don't take your comments as seriously as the older folks. I'm not against people improving themselves, but I wish the professors would give all of us a fair shake, instead of judging us based on our ages. That's why online school intrigues me, it doesn't matter if you're 18 or 80. Unless the instructors have access to your enrollment records, they have no idea how old you are, what color you are, etc., so everyone gets an equal chance to prove themselves.

I still love to learn and am always looking for new ways to learn. One reason I took MCSE and A+ certifications several years ago, so I could learn some new things and have a way to measure what I learned. Learning new things is great, and don't let our education system kill your love of learning. There are opportunities all around you to learn, in and out of school.

No it didn't.