According to Google, one of the most popular web searches in the UK is the phrase “I Hate School”. I wonder why? These days school is supposed to be great fun with lots of interactive learning, personal choice e.t.c.
Admittedly there were time when school was painful and brutal (just read Boy by Roald Dahl – and you get an idea of a very different system of schooling where boys could be flogged for talking during prep. e.t.c)
These Nobel Prize winners were also rather condescending towards school -Nobel Prize winners attitudes to school
Winston Churchill tell us:
How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. I made very little progress in my lessons, and none at all at games. I counted the days and the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home from this hateful servitude and range my soldiers in line of battle on the nursery floor.
