Education and Schooling, Page 2

Guy Oates (1905-1987): Education and Schooling- Part Three

I was now a frightned [frightened] boy, and I felt this was [not] the end but the beginning of more trouble’ (Oates, …

Being educated at my particular charity school, my learning was slow and poor, and my vocabulary is small- hence the small words …

We were fortunate in living fairly near school, which was quite a big one divided into ‘Infants, Boys and Girls’. There was …

‘I was nearly nine years old when I started why I had not gone before I don’t know’ (p.42) David Vincent writes …

‘Being at the Art School was a lovely time of my life. I learned so much.’ (pg. 5). Ellen Cooper’s eight-paged memoir …

“I feel I am getting on good, and I would like to keep it up. All I want is a …

‘Yesterday I was free; in fact, carefree: the leader of the gang with the whole of Liverpool 8 as our territory. Now …

‘From that moment my childhood ended, and I realised I had been launched on the world to earn my own living. 1923.’ …

‘…it was while we lived at the Hough that my Father I don’t remember about mother that he got interested in a …

For the last two years this place had taught me all I knew, which wasn’t much. It had sustained me as best …