I think this is just the other extreme of unschooling. The focus is on blindly excelling. I "went" to high school. I graduated with a 95% average. In high scho

I think this is just the other extreme of unschooling. The focus is on blindly excelling. I "went" to high school. I graduated with a 95% average. In high school, there was a tie between me and some blonde girl to get valedictorian. I told my physics teacher that I didn't even care and to give it to her because for her, it was a huge point of self-validation. I got 100% in physics and calculus because I loved the subjects. I spent my summers studying calculus. Excelling was a by-product. Through high school, I played sports, wrote music and had sex with girls. I did well academically too, even though (or because?) I stopped attending classes during high school and never went to class in university. I graduated university from a top 10 university on the dean's list and I ended up making hundreds of thousands of dollars every year by taking my own route. I love what I do and I loved every minute of university. The problem I think is as she says herself: she focused on excelling, not on doing what she enjoyed. Maybe her parents are to blame. I don't know. But this is not at all a strike against the school system. The school system is broken. But IMO, this is not why. It works very well for the 5% who enjoy academic pursuit.