Sounds like a far more efficacious school system than many of us found in the west. As for me, I got some individual lesson plans from when I was about 13, but never tried home schooling. Everything I know professionally, I absorbed on my own. A few laptops later and I'm still studying on my own, but I left my high school when they asked me to stand in for the IT staff they fired.
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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos