School daze revisited

[bwh]

For some reason, I held on to a lot of my school exercise books. I kept them in a cardboard box in my parents' attic for many years, and more recently brought them to my own home. Now they've been sitting around taking up space, and I don't really see what the point is. I certainly don't look at them and I don't expect anyone else to.

So, I'm getting rid of them - or most of them. Cardboard covers to the green bin, staples to the black bin, contents to the black box. This is complicated by various glued-in and taped-in parts.

As I disassemble the books, I can't help noticing some things. I'm reminded of the phrase "lies to children". I'm reminded that religious studies often means the uncritical teaching of Christian myth. I notice the drawings and scribblings in the backs of books, and my very repetitive attempts at humour. I wonder what I could have done with those hundreds of hours in secondary school that I wasted on such things. I'm reminded that I developed the most awful, stilted, writing style in middle school, and couldn't write a story to save my life. Not that I'm that much better today.

I also found a sample of Epsom salts taped into a Chemistry book. Why?

I think I'll keep some of the first school stuff though... and there are a few later pages worth keeping to post later.

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[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded that religious studies often means the uncritical teaching of Christian myth.

Sadly, there are now schools in this country in which the above definition would fit biology as much as RE.