Yacht rhymes with cock!
...If you reeeally want it to.
Thatcher. The Iron Lady Page 4
Quote: Charley @ June 19 2008, 10:57 PM BSTHeath liked cock. I bet yer. He had cock for breakfast, luch, dinner & tea.
Cant say I blame him one bit.
Me either.
Quote: zooo @ June 19 2008, 11:03 PM BSTYacht rhymes with cock!
...If you reeeally want it to.
I do. I want it too.
Quote: Aaron @ June 19 2008, 11:04 PM BSTMe either.
Is this another new Marvel Comics character being turned into a film?
Quote: Griff @ June 19 2008, 11:26 PM BSTWell I can't speak for the subjects I didn't sit, but the O levels I did sit were certainly not based on memorisation. Memorisation does not help you to solve a problem in maths or physics, you have to understand the principles and apply them to a situation you have never seen before. That is surely the opposite of memorisation.
Is there such a word as memorisation? See what this bloody education system has produced!
Did they have schools when you were young, David?
All very interesting. I went on a NUS march against Mrs M and got filmed by the police. The law enforcers not the group.
Correct she smashed the unions helped by the fact they had an idiot in charge in the guise of Arthur Scargill who was exactly the same as Thatcher only thicker and socialist.
Barbara Castle would have done it better and swifter. She had brains and common sense, unfortunately her peers were chicken and you can draw a straight line with that and the emergence of Maggie.
And I can remember sitting in the dark with them there candles but my school only closed once so missed the three day week really.
I have to hate her I was the first member of my family not to work down a mine. I did what Wales also exported. Teachers.
Bored? I've only just started.
Don't talk about schools - I went to an all boys grammar school from 69-73 and then, in my O-level year, they introduced Comprehensive education - amalgamated a school of 400 repressed grammar school boys, with the same number of convent girls + 700 mixed secondary school children from up the road. So instead of concentrating on education I had to avoid skinheads trying to beat the shit out of us and girls ... girls .. girls
Quote: Griff @ June 19 2008, 11:26 PM BSTWell I can't speak for the subjects I didn't sit, but the O levels I did sit were certainly not based on memorisation. Memorisation does not help you to solve a problem in maths or physics, you have to understand the principles and apply them to a situation you have never seen before. That is surely the opposite of memorisation.
More along the point, of organisational skills with in a set time frame. I was also thinking more of English, History etc. Don't know if it's still the case, but in my time you could choose between course work, or exam centered variants.
I think the GCSE was a good bit of modernisation, that made exams more accessible. That's not that big a deal is it?
Quote: Alan C @ June 19 2008, 11:36 PM BSTDon't talk about schools - I went to an all boys grammar school from 69-73 and then, in my O-level year, they introduced Comprehensive education - amalgamated a school of 400 repressed grammar school boys, with the same number of convent girls + 700 mixed secondary school children from up the road. So instead of concentrating on education I had to avoid skinheads trying to beat the shit out of us and girls ... girls .. girls
Comprehensive schools are a scurge.
Quote: Aaron @ June 19 2008, 11:32 PM BSTDid they have schools when you were young, David?
A few. I should've done well at History because there wasn't anywhere as much then as there is now for "memorisation"!
Quote: Griff @ June 19 2008, 11:35 PM BSTAmerican dictionaries seem to list "memorisation". (We'll pass on the issue of -sation vs -zation for now.)
We are English!
We speak English 
Quote: roscoff @ June 19 2008, 11:34 PM BSTAll very interesting. I went on a NUS march against Mrs M
I'd go on a pro-Maggie march. Her aside though, the NUS get right on my wick. Bastards. 
Quote: roscoff @ June 19 2008, 11:34 PM BSTI have to hate her I was the first member of my family not to work down a mine. I did what Wales also exported. Teachers.
Teachers? Not rugby players, dairies, brass bands (oh, wait... ), or slate quarries? 
Quote: Aaron @ June 19 2008, 11:40 PM BSTor slate quarries?
Why/ What's wrong with quarries?
Quote: Aaron @ June 19 2008, 11:38 PM BSTComprehensive schools are a scurge.
Though having been to a comprehensive school I can spell scourge.