SHOULD YOU QUIT SCHOOL NOW?

By the time I was 16 years old, I was sick of school.

I have always worked hard at school. And my good school results showed. But I wasn't getting an education.

There were certain skills I wanted to pick up at school but were not getting, e.g. writing, science.

I had science classes at school. But my heart wasn't into it because what I was learning wasn't terribly interesting to me.

One reason I was dissatisfied with the learning at school is my learning style had evolved into the kinesthetic learning style which is not a good learning style in an understaffed class room situation.

The kinesthetic learning style is one of four learning styles mentioned in Ricki Linksman's excellent book "How to Learn Anything Quickly : An Accelerated Program for Rapid Learning".

If I could live my life all over again, I would quit school at age 16 and get a real education at home through research and working at jobs that build my self-esteem and self-confidence.

I find that door to door sales jobs earning commission only and getting a lot of support and guidance from management gives a person who lacks self-confidence an excellent opportunity to nurture self-confidence and self-esteem.

Through a door to door sales job, I met and learned from successful people who have positive thinking can do attitude. I also learned from them and, to a lesser extent, from the books that I read, how to be a team player, more humble, more polite (among other things, love to say thank you, please, sorry, excuse me, Sir, Madam), more flexible (i.e. not stubborn), and not sarcastic.

In conclusion, if I were 16 years old again, if I lacked self-confidence and self-esteem like I did, if I had a dysfunctional family where the parents were negative thinking and sarcastic like I did, if I was sick of school because I wasn't getting an education there, then YES, I would leave school and get a door to door sales job and move away from a negative environment.