And so it is I give you . It is my firm belief that the British educational system is so incompetent as to be little more than a lottery, and, dear reader, I present myself to you as living proof of this. On paper, according to the aforementioned system, I am thick as shit. When I was at school, I failed everything. I am pure dead brilliant.
Some people are just no good at passing exams.
Conversely, there are others who are good at passing exams and nothing else . Consequently I spent my precious teenage years struggling to pass exams when my time would have been better spent doing precious teenage things such as jacking off and making model aeroplanes, to use Kurt Vonnegut s memorable phrase. Night after night trying to commit useless nonsense to memory. Eventually, after much struggle, I managed to scrape by the English literature, the history, etc, but I could never get to grips with maths. Later on, when I was struggling in vain to find a job, constantly being asked if I had passed maths, constantly saying no, I suddenly had a brainwave.