Quote Originally Posted by tony
Wondering what you guys think about this.. I saw a thread here where a parent is going to take their sons car away and sell it because the kid is getting C's in school.

To me punishing a child for grades that are average is useless to me. Straight D's and F's is one thing but my take on it is, most schools do not teach you shit about life skills. I never learned about credit or personal finance in school, I didnt know about mortgages or federal taxes being taken out of my paycheck.. investing... none of it.

I'll preface this to say that school is very important, especially as it pertains to certain professions BUT not everyone cares to be a straight A student. Personally I learn more from experience than I do in a classroom. I barely graduated high school with a 1.9gpa and basically flunked out of college but I still consider myself to be pretty well off considering where I am in my life and I have never looked back.

So again I'm wondering what other people think, is school really that important or is it possible to be educated through life experience?
I think school is important as a learning ground, but you learn a lot more than simply just getting grades. Social interaction, doing things you dont like to get the end you want (studying to make the cut for something else etc), and dealing with authority are all important and hard to learn elsewhere.

Furthermore, It is possible to be educated through life experience, however the people in control in society (graduates of institutions) dictate that you have to be one of them to be successful or be on your own completley. Although one can be educated without school, school proves or at least ups the chances that you really are educated (at least in the eyes of others).