Re: Gary Puckett and the Union Gap

Rowland McDonnell wrote:


Back in my dad's day (he was born in '36), kids were mostly expected to
go to work at 14. These days, one is expected to stay in education
until the age of 18 or maybe 21. It's harder to grow into an adult
unless you're actually `in' the adult world - and entry in to the adult
world is greatly delayed these days.

Sorry, one of my pet rants, what the bloody white fella's done to the
black fella down under.



Most of my Dad's contemporaries(he was born in'30) left school at 14.
He would probably have left at the minimum leaving age like his father if he had not been bright enough to get a scholarship to King Edward's Birmingham .

Higher/university education was much more the preserve of the middle/upper classes in those days.
My father chose to do join the army as opposed to go to Uni( a decision prompted i have no doubt by the fact his father would have struggled to afforded to sent him there)

Both my grandfather and gt grandfather though their formal education stopped at the minimum age where, according to my father, intelligent and knowledgeable on a variety of subjects through self learning.

My born(born '35) would also have left at 14 or so if she had not managed to get into Aberdeen high school{which was then a selective school).
She left at 17 after doing her Scottish highers to work in the F.O.
A decision prompted by the hard financial reality that her single parent
mother would have had an immense struggle to pay for the costs of sending her to Uni)








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