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Comment author: billswift 27 November 2011 06:38:33AM 1 point [-]

Use the school to pursue your goals.

Some things definitely benefit from having a teacher - especially math and languages, take as much of both as you can stand.
Select classes to boost your motivation in things you want to learn but your enthusiasm and day-to-day motivation drags.
If you want to get into a good college, don't follow some other posters' advice to slack off on some "less important" classes. You need to keep up your GPA, there are no unimportant classes. Instead, treat them as practice for anti-procrastination techniques, like doing them first. If you don't care about college, then you don't need to worry about your GPA.

Comment author: Curiouskid 27 November 2011 06:45:31AM 0 points [-]

I could learn math quicker by self-studying and watching Khan academy. I could learn a language quicker by going to a country where that language is spoken or making a friend who speaks that language (I'm thinking spanish). Or I could read in that language (I'm already fairly fluent though. So this might not apply to all).
All classes in school kill my motivation. What is motivating about jumping through hoops and doing problems that don't actually teach you. What's motivating about being surrounded on all sides by people who are slacking and cheating?
College != success || money. Look at "The education of millionaires" or Uncollege.