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Went to an excellent talk yesterday in Haslemere by Trevor Bayliss.
Now 74, the man has a self-deprecating sense of humour. He pointed out the social as well as commercial benefits of inventing. As well as the "clockworks", he has designed a significant number of mobility aids to help disabled people get around.
We couldn't really talk bikes as he'd turned up in an E-type Jaguar.

Fascinating chap. I watched a TV programme about education in the 50s in which he featured. The programme was a retrospective on grammar and secondary modern schools and who went to which (one of the Charlton brothers went to a grammar and the other to a secondary modern). He went to a secondary modern which he loved because he wasn't particularly interested in academic work but enjoyed working with materials and making things and had the opportunity to do that at his school.
Interesting and instructional to think that if he had passed his 11+ he would not have had the same technical opportunities and the world would be a worse place.
jonty
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Hi jonty,

I went to a Comprehensive in the 70's and learned how to teach myself. I then went on to teach others.

Punk_shore wrote:Hi jonty,

I went to a Comprehensive in the 70's and learned how to teach myself. I then went on to teach others.

From what I can gather "bright" students in Comprehensive often don't get much attention as the teachers concentrate on those who with a lot of help could possibly get a C rather than a D or and E in order to improve their rankings which are normally compiled on the basis of the percentage of students getting grade A* to grade C.
So, I'm not suprised you had to teach yourself.
jonty