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  I agree with Paul.
  
  When I went to the Grammar School in Lincolnshire, at that time everyone expected the girls to become teachers, but by the time I was 15 I did not want to do so.
  
  After I left school I studied shorthand, typing and book-=keeping and went into office work, and eventually had my own secretarial and duplicating business.
  
  Although I appreciated the grammar education I had, it would no doubt have been better had I gone to a technical school to learn what I was to do, but I would not think for one minute the education I had at grammar school was wasted.
  
  Throughout life we all have to cope with 'failures' or perhaps that needs to be re-worded 'not doing what everyone else wants one to do' or 'to expect to do', and think of positive sides to student's abilities. I don't like the word failure being used for certain exams, after which teachers/parents often blame the child which is not good. Children always need positive reactions and encouragement.

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