Comprehensive school

it, it could be, it could be for our students.

And then in 1982, he wrote a, a still magnificent book called The Challenge for the Comprehensive School, which was really building comprehensive schools around the idea of community.

Uh, it brought together very different, uh, intellectual perspectives, conservative and radical, and, and found a way of uniting them.

But, but when he stood up in the Oxford University Library Department and spoke for an hour introducing his book to educators who'd come in from, uh, from the region, uh, without any notes and finishing exactly on time, um, and I thought, "That's what I want to do."

But I did, I had no way of expressing any of it, so I just flounced off in a big hissy fit and ended up at Ilfracombe Comprehensive.

My mother sent me to the first sc- my first day at comprehensive school.

So we moved to Devon.

At which point we moved to Devon, to North Devon because my mum had to get a job and the only one she could find, and actually it turns out I've got loads of family in North Devon which I hadn't realized.