In your logic, a doctor doesn't need to attend medical school. He will just learn from his mistakes (after he kills people), then he will be a wise doctor. I'm sorry but this makes no sense.

You might be thinking this now, but later on when you are trying to get jobs, saying you have dropped out of school to learn stuff from nature isn't going to get you anywhere.

Edit: Thanks for the 50+ thumbs up haha.

i can kinda see what your saying but to get a job you need to learn certain things and to understand those certain things you need to learn other stuff like algebra i personally once didnt think i would ever use it but to script algebra and math is required to understand it no you dont need school to learn stuff because you can teach yourself at home everything they teach you in school but i wouldnt recommend dropping out

I regret not trying at school, got put onto the lower course so I have to do an extra year because I didnt get my English grade

But I understand how somethings at school dont help and you can learn things yourself but in some cases its not the same

You will be very surprised of how much you will need math and other skills learned in school when looking for a simple entry level job. It's pretty shocking of how useful things you learned in the 9th grade can help with stuff in the real world.

Okay school may not be important right? Well in this society it is. You may not learn as much as you think you think you do, but you learn stuff all the time! It doesn't matter if you took AP History and learned about The Tang Dynasty, but what does matter is when you go to get a job and they see that AP class they will think higher of you and bumps your chance of getting that 50% more! Everything matters, everything will come into play one time or another.

These "rich and smart" people you are discussing left school because they were self-taught. Take Mark Zuckerburg for example, he went to Harvard but dropped out after he made Facebook. He self taught himself programming and was clearly a very intelligent individual before college.

No one will go far in life without knowledge and/or talent. School isn't pointless. It opens the door to so many opportunities and I hope you can realize that. Life is so much easier with an education and knowledge, trust me.

Education is getting more and more important in this world.

Back to school, you learn so much more than just math, science, history, and language. You learn how to communicate with people, you learn how to work with others, basic things that are really a necessity in any work place. You also get the chance to do sports and extra-curricular activities with your best friends and if you go to a public school, all of that is free. As a freshman in college, I miss going to school with my friends that I knew since I was a little kid. Don't let that time just slide by you, make the most of it!

I actually agree.
I think nearly everything that you get taught at school can be self-taught at home on a computer.
In my opinion, the only thing that you need school for (aside from the obvious grades) is to learn social skills.

School actually teaches you a lot, you WILL need algebra, trigonometry, calculus etc for placement tests. Some jobs even require you to do a aptitude test and a lot of questions might have algebra in them, furthermore if you don't go to school, you just can be successful in life unless your one of those 1 out of a billion people in the world who are billionaires without going to school.