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SS4
When you talk about failure though there’s
more to it than that.
The kids we're going to
E2
SS4
Ml
be teaching, they're not going to be thinking
in terms of feeling a failure at certain subjects.
They're just going to be totally alienated from
school.
I mean, I can remember I nearly left
school at 16 because I really, you know, just
thought school a waste, I just didn't like the
whole set-up and I was one of the kids who played
around in the classes I didn't like and I didn't
feel, those subjects, I didn't think I was a
failure in because I just didn't like them.
Well, I didn’t feel like a success or
failure while I was at school.
I didn't consciously feel that.
I mean, well,
It's only now
when we're talking in our seminar groups.
Do you feel a failure then?
You tend to, like, reject the subject you
think you failed at.
I mean, I was terrible
at history, I mean I hated it because I couldn’t
do it.
I couldn’t remember vast spiels about
I could never transcribe it back when it
came to exams so I gradually hated it and when
it actually came round to the '0' Level I thought
I don't like this subject.
I don’t understand
I got an H for that but I mean, I think
it moulds your attitude to a subject.
Even now,
when I was at college doing engineering there
were two sort of factions within the Polytechnic,
Engineering and Humanities, and all the engineers
despised the humanities,
to do.
It was just the thing
SS 3
These divisions are created in the school
and I can't help feeling that the British school
system, the terrible Maths
Science divisions
that occur so early, which I think is really ...
Ml
This is. one of the things that came out
of this integrated studies talk last week,
know, everybody's saying we should teach
integrated studies as a subject .....
You
Ml
That's why it's so hard
I think, for Maths
and English to come back together on the
teaching course.