Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
i apologise if this has been posted before, or is considered to be in the wrong place.
I have just had the pleasure of reading this wonderful book by James Rebanks.
I think that all farmers can so easily identify with his family history and personal biography, even if we have not ourselves gone on to Oxford university after dropping out of school.
His description of life on a small hill sheep farm in the Lake District had me alternately in stitches then tears. I rather suspect many may know him.
His description of life in the farming community is one which will be recognised by most members on here and it should be made available to all School teachers in rural areas. He so ably details the failings of the education system in dealing with agriculturally minded children. I think most of us will aknowledge too that we could have worked a lot harder at school if we had not been looking out of the windows so much.
I have just had the pleasure of reading this wonderful book by James Rebanks.
I think that all farmers can so easily identify with his family history and personal biography, even if we have not ourselves gone on to Oxford university after dropping out of school.
His description of life on a small hill sheep farm in the Lake District had me alternately in stitches then tears. I rather suspect many may know him.
His description of life in the farming community is one which will be recognised by most members on here and it should be made available to all School teachers in rural areas. He so ably details the failings of the education system in dealing with agriculturally minded children. I think most of us will aknowledge too that we could have worked a lot harder at school if we had not been looking out of the windows so much.