"If I am I'll tell you once I learn them!"

And then they have lunch!

At this rate he's not going to get much artifact time. 

Well they don't have anything planned for him this afternoon, he's free to do whatever in the building.

He'll do an artifact block in his room.

At the end of the afternoon there's a knock.

"Come in."

It's Doctor Ximenes again. "Hello! Did you have fun today?"

"Yeah! I'm really excited for ending scarcity."

She laughs. "Yeah, that should be fun. But we have a small matter to discuss."

"Hmm?"

"Your education."

"I'm learning lots, don't worry."

"I know, but there's still a formal requirement."

"Can I test out if I know all the things you're supposed to learn from school?"

"That would obviate some of the point of school, but not all of it. It's very important for young people, and especially young parahumans, to be around other people their age while they're maturing, and school provides a shared environment for that and training grounds for many social skills you'll need in the future."

"...so I also have to test out of social skills practice?"

"There isn't a social skills test to test out of."

"But there's presumably some way one evaluates whether children have attained enough social skills."

"Normally, by socializing with them, and watching them with their peers."

"Well, okay, I can do that."

"And your peers are at school."

"I think maybe the interacting with children my age needs to be separate from the learning things because I am not interested in learning the same things as children my age."

"You could study other things while you sit classes," she suggests.

"Can I sit in the back and listen to music and stare at a book, that is an important part of my learning process."