On 16/02/2015 08:40 AM, scott wrote:

> I have to agree with Andy here, my experience of school (compulsory up
> to age 16) and sixth form college (optional up to age 18) is that most
> people didn't want to learn.

At college, every lunchtime my classmates would walk across the road to 
the Winter Gardens, and come back after lunch obviously drunk. Every 
single day. The lecturers claimed we were the worst class they'd ever 
seen. [But they presumably say that *every* year...]

> It was only when I got to University that it was suddenly full of people
> who actually wanted to be there and wanted to learn.

Well, I didn't go to Oxford or Cambridge. I went to some no-name 
university that nobody's ever heard of and isn't even there any more...

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