3 Responses to “No Wonder They Lost the Empire”

1. #1 |  Bob Hawkins |  August 15th, 2003 at 10:25 pm

   Winston Churchill almost didn’t make it into Sandhurst because he kept flunking the geography part of the entrance exam. When he got down to his last chance, he piled up maps of all of Britain’s colonies, picked one at random, and memorized it. When he sat down to take the test, the geography test was all about the colony he had memorized. The rest is history.

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2. #2 |  Extra Ordinary Ideas |  August 18th, 2003 at 4:49 pm

   The Big Test

   Educators in Britain, home of the content-driven “A-levels,” similar to America’s SAT II “Achievement Tests,” have decided to add the…

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3. #3 |  Wallster |  August 18th, 2003 at 5:31 pm

   Private schools just don’t work

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