Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Rubbish
Ronald Blythe, Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village (New York: Pantheon, 1969), p. 34 (Leonard Thompson speaking):
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I looked forward to leaving school so that I could get educated. I knew that education was in books, not in school: there were no books there. I was a child when I left but I already knew that our 'learning' was rubbish, that our food was rubbish and that I should end as rubbish if I didn't look out.
