“When I went to a school, I felt it was really like going to something else. Another planet. Where everything was strange and wonderful, but also mimetic and complex. That is to say that there were mimics everywhere, who pretended to be, represent, or do things … that were not like their actual nature or activity. And complex in the sense that I could learn so much more than topics just by observing, inquiring, experimenting, relating, and interacting both with the forms and the participants that ‘topics’, while interesting, were usually rather tedious compared to immersion in the situation(s) that we call ‘school’.”

— an anonymous informant