Forewarning: I am originally from Africa, Nigeria, which is a developing country, I am speaking/typing out of my experience and my own personal knowledge of education in and outside Africa, so yes my thoughts on this topic may or may not be biased, sort of ignorant and inaccurate. School is- on a normal basis- hell, school is literally depressing and no there are no excuses, nothing about "but the people in it are great" "and you get to learn yay" nope. None of that. Everything about the concept school is sad. You wake up very early in the morning to go somewhere unhygienic, so people can explain to you how to do/solve useless things, your hallway is littered by people you know, don't know, and don't like (there is no in between) also half or rather more than half of these people are fake and are usually manipulative except for the actually tolerable ones that don't make you feel completely like crap, you write tests on the useless...
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