[Lawliet]

I've never been a fan of the education system. I believe the way it works, it does really dumb children down and program them into certain, limited ways of thinking. There's only one answer to every question, school is the only place any intellectual development can take place, etc.

I dropped out of secondary school at 15 (due to boredom and difficulty with other students and teachers) and despite not being incredibly educated in certain areas (that I don't care to improve upon), I'm more intelligent in that my mind is more capable of free-thought. I don't know answers, but I'm able to find them where other people I know would just stick to the beaten path. What happens when those brainwashed by the school system come across a problem they've not been taught to solve? And I'd say it's no coincidence that most successful people in life and business are those who didn't take school seriously.

Education isn't intelligence, but it does compliment it. The key is giving a person that education without programming free throught out of them. I personally believe that's better being done around age 13 (with obviously introducing them to concepts early in life).