What was your favourite subject in school?
At school my favourite subject
was English, no surprise
But later social sciences
opened up my eyes.
I was slow to learn to read
But caught up once I did.
I loved books read voraciously
And passed eleven plus.
My first love writing stories
And getting teachers’ praise.
Later English Literature
And learning from the greats.
I struggled with mathematics,
Science, Languages
But got on with History, English
Loved to work with words.
From school I worked in libraries
Studied, worked with books.
Mostly the outside of them
And how they went on shelves.
I vowed I’d work in my own time
To earn my first degree.
So I’m an O.U. graduate
My university.
And as an adult learner
I changed my learning tack:
Politics, Social Science
and different stuff like that.
I don’t love sociology
I found that all too dry.
But learning how society works
I really loved all that.
But getting back to school days.
It was English all the way.
It helped grow in confidence.
There’s not much more to say.
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