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Education
Hands up if you love school. Two hands up if you don’t love school. Seventeen hands up if you’re a weird seventeen-headed alien who has infiltrated school to take over the brains of the pathetic humans and become their all-conquering overlord.
44 X 703 ÷ 93 = ?
Whatever your thoughts on school, most people would agree that sometimes it can be a bit, well, schoolish. But if you think you’ve got it bad, it could be worse.
At least you get to LeArN StUfF – not all ancient Greeks were so lucky.
Guess who didn’t get to go school? No, not SpIdErS. The people who weren’t allowed to become pupils were . . . girls. That’s right – girls did not get to go to school, although some rich girls did learn to read and write.
Five! Seven! Two! I´m not putting you off, am I?
This doesn’t seem fair. Especially as by the time they were seven or eight girls were instead taught how to run a home.
Doing art lessons, working out sums and writing about what you did during the summer
holidays seems like much more fun.
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