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Instead of modernising, British schools stick with the same culture that saw a Nobel winner humiliated in class

What first occurred to Sir John Gurdon, scientist, on hearing this week that he had won the Nobel prize for medicine, was presumably the joy of recognition. What next occurred was more basic. It was a chance for revenge against his old science teacher, who had called his work "disastrous" and marked him to the bottom of the class. Any ambition to be a scientist was "a waste of time …...