Tag: education

“Kept my head down and read a book”: the story of my life

Here are the occasions when I’ve been actively criticised for trying to bury my head in a book instead of interacting with the world around me: at family breakfasts as a child; at big family birthday parties, also as a child; on work experience as a teenager, waiting for...

Seaweed for breakfast: my childhood in a cult, part 2

So there we were, living in the middle of nowhere. We weren’t at school, and we weren’t really being taught at home, either. I mean – there were some textbooks. We did a bit. Every so often a Schools Inspector would rock up from the Council and check we...