[Attalus]

LOL, Saz, I never respond to those threads, though I have posted on some of those, "school is irrelevant" threads. I went to school 20 years, 25 if you count inernship and residency. Some of my teachers were boring, a few were malignant jerks, and several were brilliant, too many to mention without boring people. I have repeatedly pointed out that when you are ignorant (in the sense of not knowing something, not stupidity) you are often unable to see the utilty of what you are being taught, to say nothing of the fact that some teachers (coaches teaching math are a good example) really don't want to be teaching what they are in the first place. These students are frequently irritable because they would rather be doing something else, just as I would rather be playing games than seeing patients. I actually went back to school seven years ago to take a class in World Literature at our community college. Our teacher was great, a good speaker, enthusiastic about the course material, but still several kids (they really were kids) complained about the course load, too much reading, etc. I informed them that I was paying good money to learn this material, and I didn;'t want any of it skimped. Amazingly, I wasn't unpopular.