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All this kind of looking back on life at
school is important I think.
We all do it.
There’s no way you can avoid it -
provided that
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you analyse.
One example, particularly, when
I was in my primary school, for three weeks and
one of the boys had forgotten his PE kit,
and
I remember myself having this experience and
the terrible fear that you might have to do it
in your underwear because it's the third time
this term you forgot ..... and the whole effect
it had on that boy I remember myself.
It depends on what your attitude is to
your old school.
You tend to adopt a certain
attitude, you know, you let them off but I mean
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grateful for the education I got.
I can't
remember anything I absolutely hated ..... Some
things like that, you know, you take the attitude
it didn't happen to you, it was quite funny.
I mean I remember a boy in school was singing
in the back of the class and we were on the ground
floor and the teacher made him go out and stand
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right in the
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iddle of the rugby field and sing
so everybody could hear him.
for that kid it was terrible,
tears .
We were in hysterics,
He came back in
It's funny because what you're saying,
I mean, everybody being relatively successful
at school but you put your finger on the way
I was feeling in that English group because I
felt that, you know, the way that everybody was
talking.
It’s like they had been successful
at school, they had been adjusted very well to
school, you know, the way they were supposed
to and succeeded at it and I didn't have that
experience at all and I felt resentful that they
didn’t understand what it was like not to be
a success at school.
... and to admit to it though, this is
the thing.
I think a lot of people would just
not want to admit to the fact that we hadn’t
been
brilliant students, you know, they hadn't
got into Shakespeare.