I hated school a lot... Didn't suffer much per sé but I was one of the kids that was ahead of the rest and was held back every year because the teachers didn't know what to do with us. Then I got bored. I lost a lot of my skills for learning because I didn't use them, everything was too easy.
When I finished first, they just made me write numbers on a notebook until the class was over.
I was similar except I wasn’t good at memorizing facts. Give me a problem to solve and I’d be one of the first to solve it, plus I could find all the connections that even teachers missed.
Finally when I started self studying I realized I could learn 2-3x faster than the class was teaching the material. I noticed all kinds of contradictions with what teachers and parents said but when I pointed them out they’d change the topic or get angry at me.
One of the handful of true stories from my novel (which is 95% fiction) is when the boy (me) was told that “we live in a free country” I immediately decided to walk out of the classroom and go to the bathroom without raising my hand. I got in a lot of trouble for that. The teacher lectured me about how “we need rules to prevent chaos” and I said “ok, so we live in a KIND OF MAYBE free country”
It's been said (in less words) that Thomas Edison-- 1 of the most famous inventors of the last 200 years-- would have been a juvenile delinquent in today's education systems. Today's educational systems would have dumbed him down to idiocy