Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.
I was born scientist but my school turned me into just student
You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.
I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.
I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school.
In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.
Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.
I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.
When you're home-schooled, you have to have a certain level of work ethic. Otherwise, you don't get anything done.
It's much more work for the mother of an autistic child to have a job, because working with an autistic child is such a hassle until they go to school.
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