08-13-2020, 10:06 PM
(08-13-2020, 09:45 PM)fuzzbox Wrote:(08-13-2020, 09:32 PM)Ossian Wrote:(08-13-2020, 06:10 PM)Protheroe Wrote: I'm not defending anything. I think it's vaguely ridiculous that they've been able to come up with any system whatsoever. My teachers had great hopes for me, then I discovered girls and house music. If I'd have got the grades they predicted I'd have gone to University a year earlier and missed out one the best years of my life bumming round the Midlands doing mobile discos.
It's a little sad to define yourself by academic achievement so young. Yes I do feel sorry for those who haven't got what they feel they deserved, some of them haven't - some of them have. Like I say - character is born out of adversity and most of the succesful people I know have dealt with adversity well and often turned it to their advantage.
That might apply to Joe Simpson or Doug Scott; the same could hardly be said of Boris Johnson and his assorted cronies. There's a disconnect at play somewhere.
So does that mean I can kick the shit out of people and claim I'm trying to help by giving them the adversity they need to develop character?
What an odd argument.
Only if you're a housemaster at Gordonstoun.