With
that weight off my mind, my work improved at Dartford Tech. I was
even getting praise. Doris kept some of my reports: Geography 59%, a
good exam result. History 63%, quite good work. But against the
science subjects on the report sheet the form master put a single
bracket that enclosed them all- there was no daylight between them
for abjectness- and he wrote them all off with no improvement in
mathematics, physics and chemistry. Engineering drawing was still
rather beyond him. That report on science subjects contained the
story of the big betrayal and of how I was turned from a reasonably
compliant student into a school terrorist and a criminal, with a
lively and lasting rage against authority.
Imagine
that this teacher would have been too good and he would have
motivated him, making Keith believe that he had a future in Science
or that the teacher would have been compassionate and passed Keith
the exam. Thanks to the famous scholar failure, the big enemy of
education, acording to politicians, Keith could become a great
musician.
Keith
was expelled from this school to an Art school, where he started
playing guitar. Some day justice will be done with all the bad
teachers that helped to decide vocations
I could not agree more!
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