i am dissatisfied with the school life i have had so far.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. Educational methods include storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, and directed research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of educators, but learners may also educate themselves. Education can take place in formal or informal settings and any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. The methodology of teaching is called pedagogy. Education is commonly divided formally into such stages as preschool or kindergarten, primary school, secondary school and then college, university, or apprenticeship. A right to education has been recognized by some governments and the United Nations. In most regions, education is compulsory up to a certain age. Etymologically, the word \"education\" is derived from the Latin \"\u0113duc\u0101ti\u014d\" (\"A breeding, a bringing up, a rearing\") from \"\u0113duc\u014d\" (\"I educate, I train\") which is related to the homonym \"\u0113d\u016bc\u014d\" (\"I lead forth, I take out; I raise up, I erect\") from \"\u0113-\" (\"from, out of\") and \"d\u016bc\u014d\" (\"I lead, I conduct\"). Education began in prehistory, as adults trained the young in the knowledge and skills deemed necessary in their society.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I was educated in the UK. I hated high school, but enjoyed university (as it's called over there)."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's interesting, I'm from the US so I don't know how the levels relate.  Is University the same as college here, or is it like secondary school?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "University's what we call school over here. Secondary school is the equivalent of high school. And we have primary school instead of elementary school."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Interesting.  Do you have Middle School as a separate thing, or is it folded into either primary or secondary?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Grades 1 thru' 7 are primary school and grades 8 thru' 13 are secondary school. After that, you go to university (school). Confused yet? :)"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's not so bad, but I don't understand why we can't just have it all the same :P  Is the grading system similar to America?  Ours is generally broken down by 10% increments, where somewhere between 60-70% is the break point between pass and fail."}, {"role": "user", "content": "50% is the pass rate over there, but the system has changed since I was there. Used to be you were awarded an A, B or C to pass an exam, A being the highest grade. Anything below a C was a fail."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's always interesting to see how grading by countries happens.  It's fairly similar, but the \"pass\" level always seems to change."}, {"role": "user", "content": "It does, doesn't it. And in the UK, you usually need a bunch of A grades to get into university. If you don't have those you generally go to college. If you pass your college course, sometimes you go on to university."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh, so it's like a community college versus a College or University here.  A lot of high schoolers apply to college every year here, but a lot don't get in and go to community college instead for two years to see if they can transfer into College."}]