I liked school well enough (until I got to junior high school, anyway) since I've always liked reading and writing, but I always resented how non-academic stuff always wedged its way into everything else, as if "school spirit" and secondary school sports would mean anything to me or my classmates four years down the road, much less forty.

Completely agree with you about education. The things I am best known for, I daresay, have little to do with the things I studied in college.