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Doctor: Good morning. How are you? Patient: I'm very worried; doctor.
Doctor: Oh? What are you worried about? Patient: I'm afraid that I'm very ill.
Doctor: I'm sorry to hear that. Why do you think so?
Patient: Because I feel tired all the time, even when I wake up in the morning. I find
it very difficult to do any work. 1 have no appetite. My wife cooks me delicious meals but I can only eat a little. Doctor: How do you sleep? Patient: Very badly, doctor.
Doctor: Do you find it difficult to get to sleep, or do you wake up early?
Fatient: Both, doctor. I never get to sleep until 2 o'clock and I always wake at 5.
Doctor: Are you worried about anything?
Patient: Well , yes , I am. I'm worried about my work. I've just taken a new job. I earn a lot of money but it's difficult work. I'm always afraid of making a mistake.
Doctor: I see. Please take off your shirt and lie down on the couch. Patient: Yes , doctor.(The Doctor examines the patient )
Doctor: Well , there's nothing very much wrong with you , I'm glad to say. You're working too hard and worrying too much. Do you take much exercise? Patient: No, doctor. I never have enough time for exercise. I start work very early in
the morning and finish late in the evening. Then I can't get to sleep.Can you give me some medicine to help me to sleep?
Doctor: I can, but I'm not going to. You don't need medicine. You need advice. Don't work so hard. Too much work is bad. for you. Don't worry about your work. It's silly to worry. Take regular exercise.
Patient: But I may lose my job , doctor ! It's hard to get a job like mine. Doctor: Then get an easier one , even if you earn less money. Which would you rather have, health or wealth?
Patient: You' re right , doctor. It's more important to be healthy than wealthy. I'll
change my job. I'm grateful for your advice. Doctor: Come and see me again in a month's time. I think you'll be a different man ! I sometimes wonder what my mind is like inside, often I fancy that it is like this. I feel as if my mind goes round and round like the earth and if my lessons make me think hard it begins to spin. In my other class it was getting all stodgy and still and lumpy and rusty. I feel as if there is a ball in my mind and it is divided into pieces -each piece stands for a different mood.
The ball turns every now and then and that's what makes me change moods. I have my learning mood, my goodlooks mood, my happy mood, my loose-end mood and my grumpy mood,
my miserable mood, my thoughtful mood and my planning mood. At the moment I am writing this I am in my thoughtful mood.When I am in my thoughtful mood I think out my maths and plan stories and poems. When my kitten is in her thoughtful mood she thinks shall I pounce or not, and shall I go to sleep or not. This sort of thing goes on in my own mind, too. It is very hard for me to put my thoughts into words. Why Go to School?
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MATTHEW: Lesley, you're a teacher. How does the English school system work? LESLEY: Um, well, first of all most children start school at the age of five and they
can't leave school until the age of sixteen , which is just , you know , the age the age of five until eleven. . . um, and previously they used to take an e~even plus examination which would then determine whether they would go to a grammar school or alternatively a secondary modern school. But now we have a... a new systen where children aren't divided off at the age of eleven and will go into a
comprehensive system ofschooling, and. . . will do the things that they're best able to do at certain ages and if they want to take the exams they are able to at. . . at the age of sixteen.
MATTHEW: Do you think that's a . . . an improvement to th system?
LESLEY: Well,... mm, theoretically... it's supposed t be much better because it gives. . .
it stops separating children off at the age of eleven and gives them a
better chance, and in fact what usually happens is that those children who wouldn't. . . er who would have gone to a grammar school tend to be at the top end of the comprehensive system, and those that would have gone to secondarymodern school find themselves at the lower levels of the school. MAT'THEW: Do you think that the present school system is an efficient way of educating children? LESLEY Mm. . . well if you , if you accept that , you know , there have to be schools, it seems to work fairly efficiently. Of course one of our great problems in England is that we have very large cl'asses and. . . um, it would be very nice in a class, there are only twenty. . . mm and so that each child gets more
individual attention so that their own particular needs just aren't passed over. MATTHEW Do you think the. . . the subjects that er. . . children study today are adapted to present-day society?
LESLEY It would be very good if... er, more children at school had the opportunity of
learning about the society they live in... in economic terms and in social terms , so that they are much more aware of the problems that we face today. But I also think that education isn't only something that has to be. . . has to be relevant. . . um, I think education can be just a. .. a gradual extension of one self , and I don't think it's um. . . importarit for
subjects to be seen only in terms of how useful they are when you leave school. . . but how much you enjoy them and how much they mean to you. MATTHEW David, what would you do in an average day at school?
DAVID Um... it mainly consists of English and Maths, which takes up a lot of the lesson time and then. . . um. . . like on Mondays , for example. . .er, we would do ...er, I don't know, Maths, English, Art, History and then
Tuesdays would be some more English, probably ... um, His tory , Reiigious studies , Physics , whatever taking now which is `O' level , which is... is nine subjects in all.
MATTHEW I see, so you can choose. . . the subject you want to take for 'O' level... You don't have to take. . . every subject in the schdol? DAVID No,.... no, no.
MATTHEW What about games. . . er and drama and things like that?
DAVID We have about an hour and a half of games a week, and for about an hour a week
we. . . do a. . . a thing known as er. . . social studies, which is
um... it's a kind of a cross-section of... er what life wili be after we we leave school. . . Um. . . where we do drama. .. a . . . we study
ecology,sociology et cetera... Um, it's not 'O' level, we don't take an 'O' level in it, it's just for er... expersence.
MATTHEW janet, do you... think that your daughters gain a tremendous amount from their education?
JANET I think they. . . they gain a certain amount of um... necessary knowledge, yes,but I wish it was broader. I wish that instead of being driven
towards passing exams that they had, certainly at this stage of adolescence' , the chance to really broaden their outlook' completely and not feel this necessity to read towards passing an exam , to collecting a piece of paper at the end of it.
MATTHEW Er. . . do you have any specific ways in which you think. . . time at school could be improved?
JANET Yes , I think there could be a. . . a lot more encouragement in doing things for their own sake, for getting the satisfaction out of them... um, rather than this 'rat race' that everybody's forced into. . . um... for what is achieved at the end. I think . . . a lot more should be done to encourage people to get the value out of it themselves.
MATTHEW Do you think that er. . . education is just something that takes place inside a school building , or is . it a. . . an activity which takes place not only outside but right the way through your life?
JANET I think it starts the moment you're born, and . . . er... that it's going on
all around you. It's notjust taking place in a school building. . . um it should be. . . part of your whole life. Why Are They So Unlucky?
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