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Great Expectations

Jessica Irvine complains about the quality education she receives. Listen to it's flaws - 

I received the best education the English system could offer. But I don't remember engaging deeply with any of it. I could list the tragic flaws that led Hamlet and King Lear to their downfalls. But I don't remember being much moved by their deaths. I could recite the causes of World War II, but I had no insight into how future wars might be avoided.

Gosh, sounds woeful. Perhaps add to your list of complaints the fact that you didn't learn how to cure cancer, or solve global poverty, or...

since May06