It's been a while since I posted in this thread.
Having spent my entire lifetime in school of one form or another, I find it difficult to distinguish all that I have learned through school and that which is entirely separate. Looking at the list that I made previously, I wonder how true it is that these things were not learned in school.
I was attending classes when I began to love. My earliest crush was on a boy I met in kindergarten. I learned in school that it was wrong for a male to hit a female, and visa versa. This was not a lesson that either of my grandmothers were taught, as they both experienced abusive marriages. Would my understanding of love be the same today without formal education?
This is something that I learn over and over again, to greater depths, through coursework and experiments, through interactions with teachers, professors, students, and their parents. Yes, I also learn how to be patient in my marriage, but it seems that I learn more in my interactions with a broader base of people that I encounter in my academic settings.
I doubt I would take a daily run, and experience the thrill of the wind in my hair and my level-metered footfalls, had I not been forced to run in middle school PE courses. I would not have thought of singing vocal harmony had my sister not been learning about it in school and shared it with me - so were it not for her education, I wouldn't know the joy of breaking into harmony, the only difference in a room of monotonous sameness...