I didn't go back to high school (you couldn't have made me if you wanted to), and whatever social learning attributed to it I think I made up with friends. This

I didn't go back to high school (you couldn't have made me if you wanted to), and whatever social learning attributed to it I think I made up with friends. This might not be the best transmission medium for our particular brand of culture (I am still told that I have to go to prom!), but I have a hard time believing that those who've grown up without school, either centuries ago or in other nations, were any less well adjusted or healthy. Learning from age peers is important, but I'm very glad I grew up with people of many ages and attitudes and intellects, away from the high school monoculture where age equals authority. The age of best friends now range from 21 to 55, and I am happier and wiser and stronger for it. More important than age peers, I think, is shared experience with people from diverse backgrounds. Which seems to me to be precisely what he's trying to lobby for...