I do agree with all of that, but INTPs also tend to become frustrated when they find an imposed system illogical, and even moreso if it's also unfair. If it's restrictive on top of that? There are going to be problems. I know because I saw high school as each of those things.

The logic behind the curriculum always seemed suspect to me. We spent eighty minutes a day spent talking about clearly inaccurate history textbooks and stretching out book-report level analysis of texts for weeks longer than what seemed necessary, yet all four years of history and English were mandatory in high school while only three years of math and science were. Not to mention that all of the electives were art based. Adding a personal finance class would have taken literally nothing away from the math curriculum, just the redundancies within the humanities curriculum, and added to the elective program by making it more inclusive toward students who weren't interested in art.

The fact that we weren't taught 'how to do things' also struck me as fundamentally unfair. Is it rational to assume that late adolescents can handle learning everything about personal finance on their own? Probably not, judging by the economy and student debt situation. Also, as an adult I see that personal finance skills tend to correlate with the personal finance skills of families. This makes it even more unfair not to teach students 'how to do things.' My parents sucked at money to the extent that they taught me literally nothing. Everything beyond simple budgeting seemed very arcane to me. I did my best to learn on my own, unlike many of my peers who are doing just as badly as their parents or worse. I've done fine overall, but I can't tell you how many times I made less than optimal choices that were obvious to friends whose parents taught them personal finance. It's a huge developmental hurdle that literally perpetuates class inequalities.

This last paragraph will be short: School was restrictive on top of all of this. I went infrequently and did as little of the work as possible so I could focus on other interests, but it still was an awful lot of time for someone to spend doing things they mostly don't find useful or gratifying. I look back now and I'm grateful for many things I was mandated to learn, but not as grateful as I would have been for a personal finance class.