10 things that were constantly reinforced during my 12 years of public school in America that had to be unlearned as an adult desiring to be an entrepreneur.

1. Fit in instead of be original
2. Follow the rules instead of questioning why they exist
3. Helping others is cheating despite the fact that everything you do as a successful adult is a team effort
4. Have good handwriting instead of teaching me to type
5. Do it because the teacher said so, instead of teaching me to understand why doing it is important
6. Don’t challenge authority instead of teaching me that I deserve respect too
7. Get good grades in all my classes, even though I will never do trigonometry ever in life. (Sine these nuts. lol)
8. Don’t fail instead of teaching me to value trial and error
9. Debating and arguing with friends is a bad thing, instead of encouraging independent thought and self confidence
10. Be a generalist and learn things I hate, instead of developing my genius at things that i like.

More Dumbshit that I still dont understand.

1. Getting to school late will be punished by making you stay home for 3 days…WTF
2. Memorize stuff that now can be looked up on Google.
3. Learn to do calculus by hand, despite being required to purchase a $200 calculator.
4. Appearing smart is more important than being effective…. REALLY?

These are all that I can think of now. Feel free to add dumbshit you learned in the comments section.