Clambering Up the Learning Curve...

Circa 1986A memory from 1986 popped into my head recently. I was eight, and during a moment of frustration with school life, I calculated there were only eight more years of statutory attendance before I could leave Education behind. I only had to relive my entire lifespan in order to be done with it all - getting up in the morning, school uniforms, Maths... it must have been a bad week in Junior One.
I'm sharing this now so we can communally laugh at my naivety. Not only were there eight more ye...