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Would it? 2013 says it's pretty hard to curtail one's future. No single entity controls it, there's no gatekeeper. They just show their own misery.
by guard-of-terra 13y ago
Would it? 2013 says it's pretty hard to curtail one's future.
No single entity controls it, there's no gatekeeper.
They just show their own misery.
- hga 13y agoThe headteacher appears to think he can keep this guy from getting a college education, and he might well be right. True, there's no single gatekeeper, but there are a zillion little ones, and too large a fraction of them will stop someone without a degree, or one without a higher tier one ... and probably more in the Great Recession when there are so many credentialed unemployed.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoIf this guy wants to be a politician, which he seems to do, then passing thru hostile gatekeepers is his job description. Anyway, even if he would not it's not as easy either. Imagine someone cold-calling univercities telling he's a headteached (whatever this means) and persuading not accept the student N. He'll be seen as a lunatic, wouldn't he?
- hga 13y agoThat's the thing we don't know. His attitudes aren't necessarily "lunatic" based on post-WWII U.K. history, and we don't know how much this sort of thing is still an "old boys club" in which he got a hearing from people who weren't entirely cold called. Conflict with a teacher cost Richard Gabriel of "Worse is Better" fame entrance to Harvard or MIT and a lot of subsiquent grief: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_P._Gabriel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_P._Gabriel
- guard-of-terra 13y agoIf this would be true I would not be happy with the situation in the UK. But, if he's really going to be a politician, it would be very good for him to face this thing he's supposed to fight later on.
- misuba 13y ago> 2013 says it's pretty hard to _further_ curtail one's future FTFY