“Day in day out, week in week out, year in year out … you trudge off to this room crammed to the brim with bird’s nests, flash cards, trilobites, pilgrim hats, Indian headdresses, drawings and paintings in which the proportion of the head to the body is never right, but looks for all the world like an exhibit by demented Fauvists with no drawing skills whatsoever and a very garish color sense. Twice a day, everybody in this room is let out. Is it any wonder they run screaming into the sunshine?”
And now we know why ADD is prevalent in schools.
I hated school with a passion. I felt it a 13 year prison sentence. I got terrible grades but managed to educate myself with texts and periodicals on history and engineering. I’ve done alright for myself in the long run.