> I wonder how many people there are like me who can't engage well with formal education<p>Well considering nearly 1/10 people have ADHD (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300729.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09...</a>), I'd say that's a good starting estimate.<p>I'm starting to think making it a <i>disorder</i> is just a way to preserve the current education system... What's more likely: 1/10 kids need drugs to succeed, or perhaps there's something wrong with the education system... Let's pull out that Occam's razor and start cutting some of this crap.
I realized late that attending college and university is also about meeting your peers. It's a head start in building your network of people before entering the work force.
Personally I think the internet (and multimedia) should be changing the whole paradigm of formal education... of course universities are using IT but their lecture hall + library short-loan shelf approach is still at the core (and has been for a long time).