I won’t contest you entirely, but I do ask this: if society functions like a school environment, why do we need a school environment to learn social interaction? It seems at best a secondary or tertiary benefit of a structure that should primarily be focused on intellectual learning. It’s a facsimile of the real world, and facsimiles are always lacking.
Also, I think the biggest thing that present in school environments but missing from other environments is the forced segregation by age range, which prevents the more organic tribal self-organizational practices to which humans have adapted over tens or hundreds of thousands of years.
And I would also add that there are degrees of artificiality and what really matters is not so much whether we have constructed our environments so much as whether or not they have stood the test of time, and adapted to us as much as we’ve adapted to them.
Whoa there, society functions like a school environment.
You have cliches, bullies, enforcers, popular kids, the weirdos, etc.
What are our political parties other than massive cliches?
Bullies you can meet on the road, in stores, and nearly any other place you go.
Enforcers are police, detention centers, and fines.
Popular kids you need look no further than influencers, movie stares, etc.
The weirdos are anyone that doesn’t fit into our cliches.
Also, Foucault would have a few words with you as society is also an artificial environment.
The drama of daily life that plays out just happens in a larger more chaotic scale, but when we left highschool, highschool never left us.