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Because our interests don't perfectly align with what they want us to learn. My main special interest when I was 20 or so what audio technology, I was lucky enough to get to go to an audio engineering trade school and for the first time ever, in my entire life I became a 4.0 GPA student. Meanwhile, the class of 12 that started with me dropped to a class of 6 within weeks and I saw multiple other students struggling and failing at the same exact classes. The same person who was barely passing most classes in high school was now helping formerly 4.0 GPA students with THEIR homework.
Fast forward to today and now I'm struggling to find work. The world is not designed for the smart to be successful, it's designed to turn the hard working into servants and the rest of us into examples.
All of this resonates with me.
In addition, I had good professors overall who inspired and helped me wayyyyyyyy more than HS teachers.
Mixing that in with me knowing that I should study and actually doing it helped too lol
I think schools should give more control to the students about what and how they want to learn, I always hated it that they forced me to learn things I am not interested in and will probably never use in my life