Just thinking about schooling with this thread.

I recall when I was in primary school, I was often pulled out of school for a few months to go travelling with my parents and was homeschooled. My mother constantly complained that we only did 2 hours schoolwork a day, Mon-Fri, and even then not all the time (sometimes we went out and saw the world!). I went back to school twice as far ahead as I should have been. My mother always made a point of telling me how little I did at school.

Well, yeah. At school we also did painting and I used to help other children who needed it (at the teacher's direction). It wasn't all academics. History at school (for example) was not a day out at the temples in Athens, it was book-stuff: we learnt the legends behind the temples, which I had to do on my own when we got back to England because my mother couldn't tell me them. Geography was also geology, not just marking on a map where we'd been. I also read less at school, because there were other things I had to do, like sports. My mother never understood that (and I was too scared to argue with her). She also wouldn't let the school move me up a year, so what, exactly, should I have been doing at school?