When I was a kid, we still had the old school teachers who often were not really good to or with the kids. Learning was often by memorization or - even worse - having the teacher dictating what you have to write into your book for an hour. I was really restless as a kid and sitting quiet with my desk like that for hours every weekday was just torment. By the time I was 16, I was so fed up I dropped out .. I started again a few months later, but then I was studying art which I stuck with for 3 years. I don't think the education was that good, but it was much more freestyle and flexible. I could do things in my own pace and wasn't trapped with the desk much.
People may be surprised at this because I imagine most would think I was a pretty good pupil, but I eventually got extremely rebellious and most of my late teens, I didn't really care what grades I got. I learned a lot from school, but the way it was for me it was definetly a creativity killer and that way of learning just did not suit me as a kid at all. I think that is or was a quite common scenario for young boys with ants in their pants.
School is always changing here and so it's probably better now than it was. I'm glad I'm done with it .. Now I have lectures, but I choose to go to them. And yeah, I still get ants in my pants but I've learned to cope .. mostly.
