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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »I did history A level, and 1/4 of the syllabus was on a special subject - and ours was "The Mid-Tudor Crisis, 1540-1560". So the Reformation as a subject has stuck well in my head.
Ah... that explains why you're an expert then. I'm afraid I gave up history as soon as I was allowed to.
I think the adolescent brain isn't capable of finding too many things interesting. I know so many scientists who thought history etc were boring at school, and discovered when grown up that it's actually quite interesting (as long as one hasn't got to write essays about it) but also lots of arts & humanities types who couldn't stand sciences at school but have similarly developed an interest later in life.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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Ah... that explains why you're an expert then. I'm afraid I gave up history as soon as I was allowed to.
I think the adolescent brain isn't capable of finding too many things interesting. I know so many scientists who thought history etc were boring at school, and discovered when grown up that it's actually quite interesting (as long as one hasn't got to write essays about it) but also lots of arts & humanities types who couldn't stand sciences at school but have similarly developed an interest later in life.
No expert, just interested. I also did English Legal History as part of my LLB, and got my highest mark by quite a distance in it, out of all my LLB subjects (not useful, but fun).
I liked most subjects at school, apart from languages, which I wasn't good at and loathed....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
I wanted to do it all btu the teaching was all so boring, If we had teachers who had explained things well and good topics I'm sure choices would have been harder. For example, Latin for me was not a choice of Latin, but of the Latin teacher and the wonder ful roman world we entered in that class room.0
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it's the wrong end of the month for bandwidth "elsewhere".
Can't we just buy some for PN?
Probably cheaper than the alternative.....“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Can't we just buy some for PN?
Probably cheaper than the alternative.....
I suggested before those of us who use it pay for it.
Spammers are the problem I think, because they full it faster than we can, and the hours in resolving that issue are more than PN should or could have to justify. (Think that's right, its my understanding anyway)
Selfishly.....I like that its just a stage more 'quiet' than here too.0 -
So, the Big Day has finally arrived...
I've had an offer accepted on a house
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I've had an offer accepted on a house
Congratulations.
A smiley wasn't enough to convey the good wishes, so here, have an animated fireworks display instead.
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Don't get me started on the A level system!Ah... that explains why you're an expert then. I'm afraid I gave up history as soon as I was allowed to.
I think the adolescent brain isn't capable of finding too many things interesting. I know so many scientists who thought history etc were boring at school, and discovered when grown up that it's actually quite interesting (as long as one hasn't got to write essays about it) but also lots of arts & humanities types who couldn't stand sciences at school but have similarly developed an interest later in life.
Too late, you have!
Schools get to teach a bunch of students who'd be at uni elsewhere.
Universities get to teach quick narrow degrees on the cheap (instead iof the 4+ year degrees elsewhere). Instead of spending £12k on teaching students at uni you're teaching them at school for £6k. Well actually now I think about it many private school fees are probably closer to the £12k university level and they proceed disproportionally to higher ed, so unsure how big the savings are really.
Students get lumbered with a narrow qualification. But some charisma vacuum in parliament will stand up and call it the "gold standard".
Places that don't use the A level system don't have the arts/science divide you're describing (or at any rate don't have so much).
School is for producing an all-round person. University is for producing well-trained specialists. Trying to to do it any other way's a disaster.
Fair do's for having the guts to experiment with it but we're 60 years in and it's still not working. Time to move on.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Hamish, assuming it all goes through ok (not counting any chickens yet), this boom you're talking about had better bloody happen!0
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