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French, German and Chemistry, for me. What a waste of time those were. None of them ever did me any good and a total waste of time. Spanish is the most popular language at my Alma Mater, I should have studied that as I lived there for 15 years! I likedLlatin though as I really liked the teacher, Mr. Gerald Cotrell, he was a total maverick and a bit bonkers and I liked that about him 
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I was rubbish at art, woodwork and metal work. My art teacher gave up on me and when he asked if I could try a little bit he asked me to do a self portrait, my effort made me look like a Francis Bacon when he was on opium, not a good look.
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Religion
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Latin...painful going
Chemistry....An eccentric mad old boy with his test tube kits Art...two hour lesson on friday washing brushes ! |
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I was excused from R.E. woundedknee, I had to stand up in front of the class and explain why I didn't believe in God. The teacher kicked me out of the class as he said I was a disruptive influence on everyone else.
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The only thing I remember from school is having to regularly write out 100 times, perpetual perversity provokes a perfectly peaceful prefect to perpetrate particularly painful punishments. Oh, and a bit about the French Revolution.
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I had double chemistry every Friday afternoon, I never used to go and went to the gym instead. That was back in the day when nobody really cared if you turned up or not, things are a bit different these days I think. On Derby day when it was held on the Wednesday my head of year always knew where I was and never asked for an absent note from Mum or Dad. My maths teacher used to run a book at Wimbledon dog track on the cheapside, I used to buy him a whiskey or three, Mr Llewelyn. I was a maths wizard!
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Hated school full stop, looking back now think 90% of the lessons were totally pointless, teachers in my day were appalling, chemistry, re, woodwork, never ever played instruments in music, just sat there listening to tapes and stupid records, absolutely awful, pe teachers were a ****g joke, one doubled up as an english teacher, he was useless at both. those handwriting classes, don't they call it calligraphy or something like that. could go on and on.
Only thing i enjoyed was drama, appeared in quite a few school productions also at 6th form college, should have followed on with it, but lost interest, its funny, because my drama teacher at school, for some reason didn't like me, she gave me a terrible grading in my exam and i've absolutely no reason why as my work was good, i bumped into her about 6 years or so after leaving on a works do at some upmarket public house, she recognised me and came over to talk to me, but i totally blanked her and just walked away Felt good at the time.... |
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I did a bit of drama too. Was in a production with Bruce Bould who appeared in Reggie Perrin with Leonard Rossiter (he played the guy who kept saying "super")
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Music .....spitting in a recorder was no career break
Woodwork ....I could have captained England at splitting the grain Art ......I still draw like a four year old |
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r e was a waste at high school, ....homework was marked by a guy with ocd,
2 marks for date, 2 for putting name , and 2 for underlining title etc he used to be awful to less able kids in the class so.... challenge was to write a full page and score zero marks work was returned in order of mark, highest first, could you be last? talk about pointless!! finally managed it by writing in green and not touching the lines with any of the letters  english lit, shakesphere and co was my most boring lesson, with teacher acting all the parts and really enjoying it. hey ho, panic at exam time but luckily i managed a pass |
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I absolutely loved my school days TINotaTON, playing rugby, cricket, hockey and athletics every year, happiest days of my life. Loads of chicas from James Alleynes Girl school and Alleynes in Dulwich Village, the best days ever.
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Slippy - Gerald Cottrell? Didn’t he train Acclamation? Well you did say he was maverick.........
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Slippy bragging about his Tom Brown Schooldays again ................
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Cottrell trained the wonderful Young Inca me thinks ......grey sprinter who used to walk into the stalls on his own.
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science & physics; i hated every second & could regularly be found practising my topspin forehand at table tennis
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Sadly i didn't Slippy and i've absolutely no regrets about it at all, it was the pits, thankfully got into and ended up doing what i still love today, my gym work. still amazed today how some of those aresoles qualified as teachers, horrific
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If we are bragging about our dads Slippy , my dad ran against Olympic 100 metres Bronze medallist Emmanuel McDonald Bailey .......don't think he won mind.
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 That's a grand claim to fame for Mr.626 senior |
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Art (but only because I have no ability), RE (never believed any of it) and PE (totally useless at gymnastics and walked cross country after token two or three minutes of slow jogging.)
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Hated Music lessons. History my favourite subject simply because of an enthusiastic History teacher.
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RE NAP
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I was rubbish at X country as well Manoleeds, I was a good sprinter though over 100 and 200 metres.
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English...read and write without computers.
Maths ....add subtract times divide...cine, cosine, tangent...ever used them? English lit...Shakespeare, different time and language History, most of which is debunked Geography, pointless. Countries change names, currency, religion and produce and who cares about gdp? Religion....don't start just ban it. PE...just make the little b@stards do it irrespective of pe kit or not or gender Biology...since when has knowing about dissecting frogs helped to pay the water bill? Chemistry...useful if wanting to know how to make a bomb, otherwise pointless. Physics...goes up comes down...so what? |
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"History my favourite subject".
..... sorry Aka that made me .... very apt for a Sevconian |
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What a depressing read. Meanwhile people in 3rd world countries who for some reason better understand the value of an education would give their right atm to give their kids the educational chances given in the UK.
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Statistics.
To his credit, the chap who taught the subject explained that statistics was useless beforehand. We got through the entire statistics course for the Applied Maths A level in a fortnight at the start of term, then spent the rest of the year studying mechanics. This was then the paper for which we were entered at A level, on account of it being much more difficult to pass. A grammar school in 1977 was a very different world. |
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Statistics ties in with probabability and should be useful to many people playing the markets on betfair? Older I get the more I love stats!
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Statistics and probabilities are two different things, according to Mr Dickinson in 1977.
You calculate the probability of something happening from real information using maths. That's what you do when you calculate odds on here. Statistics is what you use when you don't have enough information to calculate a mathematical probability. You begin with a conclusion you wish to demonstrate, then select data which confirm that conclusion. Social sciences, climate science and political science are modern examples of this. |
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Despite the newspaper adverts, vids, lawyers and prayer meetings from you obsessed feckers our history is intact.
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"Statistics and probabilities are two different things, according to Mr Dickinson in 1977."
Is this Bruce, or the guy who does Bargain Hunt? "You begin with a conclusion you wish to demonstrate, then select data which confirm that conclusion. Social sciences, climate science and political science are modern examples of this." Miaoww! Well we'll have to agree to differ, in my experience they are often related. |
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Metal Work...Fackin pointless.
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Twonky
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Algebra. The end.
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Strangely enough mine would be Computer Science.
Anyone else did this in the mid to late 70's ? Every week we had to do a print off, so to print off a picture of say Mickey Mouse on a computer sheet you had cards, each card would be ONE dot of Mickey so to get a printed picture back took a pile of cards about two inches thick, problem was each pixel was probably six or seven different digets on the card get one wrong & your picture failed to come out, for a whole year I sent off a picture every week & I got just one back, if it was wrong all you got back was the pile of cards What a friggin complete waste of time, I'm sure when the subject arrived in the 21st century it was a bit more interesting ! |
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never saw a computer at school, had adding machines where you had to crank the handle
teacher pished off, see who could crank handle most times in a minute, 10p a man winner takes all... tech drawing teacher was an old bloke, stood there drawing on board, copy this lads ........end of year report ....a good years work.....every kid got same report! |