[BNM] [OT] Brighton's nuclear power station?

[Mark Ng]

*gets the popcorn out*

On 24/05/07, Tom Dussek (Hotmail) <tomdussek at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I wasn't going to mention this, but your intellectual gifts were clearly
> not matched by your social ones. I was also one of the brightest, but
> had the wit to get on with all the other kids, no matter where they were
> on the oik scale. Good for you that you are developing your own self
> imposed exclusion into something wonderfully and expensively formalised,
> though. They'll have a great time together. All kids the same. No nasty
> new ideas, difficult problems or things that you maybe don't understand
> to have to grapple with. Just the rarefied atmosphere of private,
> superior exclusion. That'll get them ready for The World.
>
> Out of interest, did you or anyone you know go to private/public school?
>
> Tom Dussek
>
> paul perrin wrote:
> > Well due to the changes my youngest is going private (as are most of his
> > bright friends), so the oiks wont have the benefit of their 'highly
> > motivated' company anyway. But at least it is going to cost me a fortune, so
> > the oiks parents can gloat about that to make themselves feel better.
> >
> > Paul /)/+)
> >
> >
> > On 24/05/07, Barry Bloye <bbloye at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 24/05/07, Nick Wilsdon wrote:
> >>
> >>> Having actually been the 'brighter' one in a classroom full of idiots,
> >> you
> >>> don't nobly educate the rest. Usually you keep very quiet as the peer
> >>> consensus does not look too favourably on the 'clever/geeky' ones. The
> >>> teachers also have to work at the lowest common denominator. I was bored
> >> out
> >>> of my head most of the time with no one to stretch me academically.
> >> Ditto. At Primary School I was considered 'gifted' and got moved up a
> >> year, and even then I was still top of the class. The headteacher
> >> recommended I consider going to Brighton College, but naturally I
> >> wanted to go where my friends were going.
> >>
> >> I went to the 'local' comprehensive, and ended up with very mediocre
> >> GCSE grades. I (well, the two or three 'higher' pupils in my class)
> >> was lucky if I got 10 minutes attention in the average GCSE maths
> >> class. When I took the exam I didn't understand a good chunk of the
> >> questions because it was stuff I'd simply never been taught.
> >>
> >> But then if I'd gone to a different school, I wouldn't be where I am
> >> now, so it can't be all that bad. :)
> >>
> >> Baz
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