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I'm often glad that my exposure to "schools" was extremely minimal (~5yrs).
Including elementary? Good work - how did you manage?
A few months of kindergarten first, which (for assorted reasons) then motivated about eight years of mostly self-directed homeschooling, followed by about 5 total years of community college + undergraduate university (in which I learned very little). Rounding up I guess 6yrs of typical schooling would be more accurate, but I could probably justify discounting the university years somewhat given that less time is spent in-class and 80% of what I learned I did on my own, outside of coursework.
I've considered grad school but I think at this point I'm too set in my autodidactic ways to adjust to the demands of an academic environment.