I am aways very grateful that I am part of this community,and I don't know how my life would have been If I wasn't part this amazing community.I termed it a school due to how broad it is,and how impactful it's knowledge has been on us.So many persons started this forum knowing nothing about bitcoin,but due to the ideas,topics of discuss,and knowledge shared in this forum,they have known several things,and are also teaching other people about bitcoin.We are here to discover several other things we haven't known about bitcoin,and it is only in this Forum that we can get such information,because we have lots experienced people here.I'm glad to belong to this school of thought," Bitcointalk School of thought."
Yeah, you can call it that way, however, not sure about calling like like school, because of that is the case then Satoshi would be our teacher? Nevertheless, it's a learning process for us if we want to be a bitcoin investor or just wanted to used bitcoin the way it used to be, as a payment scheme.
And it's going to be cyclical, as the OP became more knowledgable on bitcoin, there will be another individual who will join this community wanted to learn and then thought that he is in the school and go on years here (hopefully), stay, become a solid member.