the modern world, your first quarter century of life is deeply weird.1 You spend your earliest years learning incredibly useful skills: How to walk. How to talk. How to get along with others. Everything’s going so well . . . until your parents decide you’re old enough to start school. School teaches you a few more incredibly useful skills: reading, writing, math. Most of the day, though, you just kill time. Parents, teachers, and other adults guarantee that formal education is vital preparation for adult life. Thirteen years later, your elders grant you the option to quit school but urge you
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