School = Brainwash?

The worst part is, after all those years slaving through curriculum after curriculum, you end up getting a whole load of stuff that won't be useful to you in real life, ever. Neurologists don't need a second language. Entrepreneurs don't need calculus, or even a lot of high school math. The long, laborious could have been shortened by actually getting to the stuff you need. Then you could spend the freed time on something fun or useful.

I hear a lot of this "school isn't useful" stuff.

Thing is, unless you're part of the small segment of the population that knew for absolute certain they wanted to be doctors since age five, you just don't know what you need. And sometimes you might think you know, but you really don't. School is about exposing you to the world. You have to wonder how much of your aspirations comes from what you've been exposed to.