Swartz had skipped out

"[Aaron] Swartz had skipped out on the lessons taught by the American high school--the lessons in cynical acquiescence, conformity, and obedience to the powers that be. He was right to think these lessons injure people's innate sense of curiosity and morality and inure them to mediocrity. He was right to credit his 'arrogance' for the excellence of the life he had lived."

~~ from "The Life and Afterlives of Aaron Swartz" in The Souls of Yellow Folk by Wesley Yang