There is also the fact that some of us, like you and Darren and i, had some sort of 'aptitude' for language, which simply means we found ourselves interested in it, attracted at a critical point of opportunity, quite young, and so we told ourselves we 'liked it', because we were 'good at it' ..... probably some degree of random chance involved here, and for others it fell towards more material sciences .... Lino sounds like he was pulled in the direction of the maths, physics, engineering, shop class, and the like .... i sucked at maths, bigtime, always did and always will, a column of figures will turn me nauseous in three seconds flat .... engineering, well i can build a bridge out of cedar windfalls using a saw and a front end loader, all by myself, but this only by seeing it as art
Each to their own ... language seems to go with attraction to geography, history, an interest in other peoples, travel .... all important to full education but not the end of it by any means .... we've got to have beancounters and engineers too ...... plumbers - do you have any idea what a plumber in the UK makes, it's amazing
Kids have it too easy these days, and in some cases i know of teachers who have it too easy, and who make it too easy on kids .... just two cases, and they're both very urban ones, so there's no end to available trouble for the idle hands ... i'd be cracking the whip there i think, given power to do so |
