I beg to differ, someone wants to engage?
Schools take up where forums give up. Before all I mean acquiring social skills and learning behavior patterns through "live" communication with fellow boys and girls, which forums are so conspicuously devoid of.
NO. Look at history. Social skills and behavior pattern learning existed long before "schools". Schools were created to teach reading, writing and arithmetic, plus some advanced subjects. Later, it is usually ascribed to Dewey in the 1920s, schools started to be perverted to emphasize "teaching of social skills."
No, you don't need schools to learn social skills.
You forget to consider all the relevant facts when you offer me to look at history. Yes, social skills and behavior pattern learning had existed long before schools appeared, but you are obviously losing sight of social changes that make your suggestion not applicable here.
There had been no online forums, no HoMM and no Half Life back then.