Nonacademic schooling....

I do value the nonacademic education I am receiving. I learn many things at school academic and nonacademic. We may not need to go to school, but i'm glad we're forced to. I feel that school does hold some people back from their potential. In the readings we've read there have been examples of people who were successful without school like George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Ben Franklin, etc... but those are only a few people out of the thousands that didn't have an education. They probably weren't as intelligent as those men. Franklin was a scientist, Washington was a general, Lincoln was a senator. They all were in situations to learn and become more intellingent. Many people don't have the luck to be in those situations to learn so many things like those men. They are huge exeptions for a generation. I highly value the fact i have people to teach me in school everyday. I've learned what those have done before me and get an understanding of why it's important. I know and i think everyone knows that i'm not the most motivated person. Without school I don't know what i'd do. My nonacademic education gives me a chance to further myself, we can still excel if we want to put more effort into it outside of school.