h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Great, well, now that all that excitement has passed there's not really anything for me to do now, except get together with my friends. Oh well, it still beats going to school. I can't believe how some people get so bored in the summer that they'd actually want to go to school. You know what would be cool? If instead of going to school, they'd give you books and you could do independent research. Not only would you be able to study subjects that you find most important in depth, (unlike school) it would also weed out the slackers who don't want to learn anything (also unlike school). Then as the final test to see how your research paid off, you finish your education by applying for colleges as normal.
 

Applying for colleges? Ack. Surely one who has just so berated the public high school system would not dream of bringing one's academic study to the crippled pace of a college.... Ouch... Surely anything you would would be wont to learn could be learned more efficiently outside of such expensive and dry institutions of structured thought. Hmm....

Good point. Hmm...okay...then screw high school, screw college, let's just have independant research and be done with it! Who's with me? No one? Well, okay, fine then...