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I don’t quite know about school and formal education as an answer anymore. With the imposition of student fees the rough edges are smoothed and, skipping out the door clutching a certificate like a Wonka Golden Ticket and into the bright world of work, the erstwhile student is confronted by years of loan repayment and low-paid internship. It would be far better to simply not repay, start a business, ignore the begging letters, I dunno. Of course, this is not an easy path to take. Autodidacticism would seem to be ideal but, again, this is tricky and requires self-discipline and isolation.

It seems the drift is towards a post-literate future. Emojis, speech-to-text, symbols replacing those bothersome words, screens and images. None of my younger colleagues at work read books.

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