Category Archives: education

Len Deighton on Etonians

Posted on October 10, 2019 by odeboyz

Eton, Oxbridge, Buddha class: sadistic, self-sufficient apparatchiks who controlled Whitehall by stealth, wealth and consanguinity and — no matter how friendly — inevitably closed ranks against intruders like me. Len Deighton. Hope (1995) (Kindle Locations 1945-1947). HarperCollins UK. Chris

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Bruce M.

Posted on September 18, 2019 by odeboyz

I wouldn’t call Bruce a friend, more an acquaintance that are so important to one’s life. He was important in the long past. He was a very noticeable youngish man, I’m guessing in his early to mid-thirties. He was very … Continue reading →

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Wittgenstein as a (failed) teacher

Posted on September 2, 2019 by odeboyz

For our own part, we struck Wittgenstein as intolerably stupid.1 He would denounce us to our faces as unteachable, and at times he despaired of getting us to recognize what sort of point he was trying to get across to … Continue reading →

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A professor and a female student

Posted on May 30, 2019 by odeboyz

A young female student came into her professor’s offices. She nervously glanced at him as she closed the door. Then, with a theatrical flourish, kneeled at his feet. “I’d do anything to pass this exam. I’d do…anything.”  “Anything?” “Anything.” “Anything?” … Continue reading →

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The meaning of prejudice

Posted on May 16, 2019 by odeboyz

“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” J K Galbraith, economist and all round genius Chris

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Corporal Punishment at Sir Philip Magnus School, 1950s

Posted on May 1, 2019 by odeboyz

Unfortunately, all schools throughout my childhood indulged in barbaric acts of sadistic punishment attempting to intimidate.  I’ve been subjected to some of these acts and I’ve witnessed all of them. At various times as a young boy, I was accused … Continue reading →

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Books! Do you remember them?

Posted on April 8, 2019 by odeboyz
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I don’t want to go to school

Posted on April 1, 2019 by odeboyz

“I don’t want to go to school today mum.” “Well you’ve got to. And that’s that.” “The boys hate me and the teachers hate me. And I don’t want to go.” “Well you have to. And that’s that.” “But why?” … Continue reading →

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American teachers learn how to shoot in a school situation

Posted on March 7, 2019 by odeboyz

We continue training for three more days, eight to twelve hours a day. We will be taking the Ohio Peace Officer Training Assessment at the end of the course. It is the same test required for Ohio police officers, but … Continue reading →

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Laptops, exercise books and textbooks

Posted on February 28, 2019 by odeboyz

Exercise books and textbooks are obsolete. Both are quaint relics in an era of search engines such as Google. Teachers and schools may well feel that ditching exercise books and textbook is too revolutionary. There’s also the possibility that entrenched … Continue reading →

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