I believe that school really does prepare you for the real world. Both intellectually and on a personality basis. At one moment you have classes that teach you necessary material that you will use in most jobs and in high levels of learning as well. The other moment is the personality factor. It teaches you to deal with a variety of experiences that can be dealt with later on in life. Like my guidance counselor said "Being in school is very much a full time job, you have to have attendance, good attitude and be able to handle situations as they come".