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No, most people are not basically good, not really. It is an illusion of goodnes that they give off, due to their indifference, and their going with the flow. If the flow is good, the illusion is maintained, and all is well. But when push come to shove, they will show how little they really care.

[dead] 16 years ago

Way to go with your sweeping generalisation.

Not like the article is any better.

And this is the crux of it right here. The author is confusing the two goals of making a point, and having that point heard. Surely there are better ways to market yourself than by spewing ad hominems, which just go to diminish your supposedly more important goal of actually making a solid point.

I figured school and I weren't a right fit some time in high school, so I dropped out then. Never even heard of unschooling at the time, I just considered myself an autodidact. That was now more than two years ago, and I still haven't started "unschooling" myself.

It was a problem when my parents threw me out soon after my 18th birthday, for dropping out of school. I had to get a miserable job, coding PHP for about the same amount of money my friend got stacking boxes in a warehouse. That was nothing unexpected, it just shows how much programmers are valued in my country.

The job made me depressed, unable to do anything. Not learn, nothing.

Now I'm working with a friend on a startup company, poised to solve all our problems, but I wouldn't say that's going so great either.

But I don't regret anything. School wasn't a good way of learning for me, and I will continue my education on my own, as soon as this company gets of the ground and I have some time.

Thank you, I couldn't have said it better myself.

The author seems to think it's either all tables, or no tables. From one extreme to another.

I prefer not to use tables for layout, but I will if I have to. :-)

So you're saying everyone has the potential to be great? That's just not true. Yes, most people never come near their full potential, but not everyone is born equal, and not everyone can do anything, if they just try hard enough.

On second read, maybe that's not what you're saying, and I missunderstood. Forgive me--I haven't slept in 40 hours. :-)

I'd have to disagree with that. There is actually quite a high threshold, as should be obvious, from the percentage of people doing great things.

You may not notice it, if you live in your own little isolated world.

Yes, you can be very intelligent, and incompetent; but no, you cannot be competent, able to get stuff done, and not intelligent.

If you can be something better, then you're not what you think you are.

Are you just speaking hypothetically, or do you really think you are unable to be smart? Because if you do think that, chances are you're wrong.

> In short, what I am is an overpowering urge to be anything else.

Join the club.