For one thing, you wouldn’t know what you don’t know. You would be ignorant about so many things: reading, writing, understanding world events perhaps. You’d see your world as what would be immediately around you, not understanding the greater world and the immense jigsaw puzzle that working and living in society usually becomes.
IF you married and had children, you would know less than them in a scholastic sense by the time they finished first grade. By the time they finished sixth grade, the children would have progressed so far beyond you that you could no longer understand their homework or carry on conversations about what they learned. UNLESS you were willing to learn alongside your children. As they began to understand geography, you might be able to work with a world globe or atlas. Their mathematics would overwhelm you, unless you’d been with them as they learned the foundations of adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. Some of the information you’d already have, just from working in a business world. The rest of it would be information you could readily learn if you were open to such education.
Learning should be a lifelong endeavor. Whether it takes place in a classroom or out in the world, we never stop adding information to our brains.
