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i_agree_with_nick
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"...before the exams the teacher had left a personal message on each of our desks...  'if you think, think big; and if you thing big, think bigger'..."

At my school, you were lucky if the teacher knew your name.

At the time, I thought the teachers were pretty good but looking back, there was no inspiration or encouragement.
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Report i_agree_with_nick • October 2, 2018 3:56 PM BST
My local education authority abolished the grammar school system about two years before I started secondary school.

My school was an ex-grammar and I remember the headmaster emphasising this and telling us that most of the teachers had stayed on.

Maybe that was part of the problem. I can't help feeling that some of them regarded us as scum; and I was in the top stream so presumably would have qualified for a grammar school in any case.
Report DIE LINKE • October 2, 2018 4:21 PM BST
'if you think, think big; and if you think big, think bigger'

Was the exam on Facebook memes?
Report TheBaron • October 2, 2018 4:31 PM BST
It would have been more helpful to leave a note containing some of the answers rather than that tripe.
Report stickyvicky • October 2, 2018 5:38 PM BST
Good advice for when they will be working in McDonalds after they are finished their school years.
Report paulypaul • October 2, 2018 7:23 PM BST
Good advice for when they will be working in McDonalds after they are finished their school years.

You can show them what to do Vicky.
Report Just Checking • October 2, 2018 7:31 PM BST
I had some very good teachers and some mediocre. I wouldn't like to be a teacher now though.

All political correctness and a lack of discipline?

Maybe in a posh school, that would be nice.

Come into class and they are all standing on their desks "Oh Checking, My Checking".
Report Coachbuster • October 2, 2018 7:49 PM BST
it's not the teachers ,it's the sh1t they teach you  ...teachers can only work with the tools they're given
Report DIE LINKE • October 2, 2018 8:08 PM BST
Using the phrase "posh school" would reveal you to be the pleb you are. You'd be calling them "sir".
Report Just Checking • October 2, 2018 8:09 PM BST
I'll have you know I went to hogwarts, and it doesn't get posher than that.
Report SlippyBlue • October 2, 2018 8:25 PM BST

Oct 2, 2018 -- 2:08PM, DIE LINKE wrote:


Using the phrase "posh school" would reveal you to be the pleb you are. You'd be calling them "sir".


I was a prefect at Dulwich College, I always called teachers "Sir". I don't think I'm a pleb though to be honest but I'm open to differing opinions about my status in life Laugh

Report i_agree_with_nick • October 2, 2018 8:38 PM BST
As said, I went to a comprehensive but we had to address the teachers as "Sir" or "Miss".
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