What They Forgot To Teach You At School

Our boredom is a vital tool. It is telling us what is slowly killing us – and reminding us that time is short.

First and foremost, a school worldview inspires a belief that those in authority know what they are doing and that one’s task is to obey.

simultaneously never to believe too blindly or too passively in the long-term validity of everything we’re asked to study

They teach us to deliver on, rather than change, expectations

They have a set number of topics they want to talk us through, and must – to a greater or lesser extent – distract us from wandering too far away from their own ideas.

the determining ingredients of fulfilled adult lives

Some of what we have to suffer is unavoidable

the power to wreck an adult’s life.

the history of our own anger or despair

Every young person is compelled once again to discover, in midnight sobs, what is already theoretically very well known about ending relationships, finding a career or dealing with damaged but well-meaning parents