If someone puts good lectures up somewhere like youtube, and backs those up with worksheets with computer-checking, everyone can go at their own pace. Treat your own education as video game, and get competitive. No more mini-riots from the chavs. No more waiting while the teacher rounds up the stragglers.

Only pe, science labs and essay writing aren’t easily covered by multiple choice questions, and pe can be covered better by a judo club/swimming club or football team.

Yeah, once. After that it would have taken a hefty bribe – which my Dad would have got, no doubt – to compensate me for danger, filth and not getting a view of the sky for most of my childhood. And not even a gift box of salts at the end of the day.

This was a bloody awful life, not a kid’s day trip to a theme park.

These stories matter because coal mining was not all about grim proletarian suffering and Arthur Scargill. Young men, such as my great grandfather, left the rural areas to work for what was then pretty good money in dangerous conditions.

As a child I thought it was the bee’s knees and went a couple of times (from Vienna), it still sounds fun now.

The same forces are also suppressing the price of silver, who they? J P Morgan, HSBC et al seemingly with the
blessing of the Federal Reserve, to make Fiat paper look better than it is.
As the suppression gets more publicity, with help of Ron Paul and others expect the value of gold and silver to rocket,
eventually we have to return to honest money, backed by the real value of precious metals.

Thanks for the info Paul M.

The only mine I’ve been to is the Speedwell cavern in the Peak district, it’s a flooded leadmine where you get a slow boat ride to the end (and back!) the commentary was, on both visits, hilarious and informative, highly recommended.

I too worked in a South Wales mine, but not at ten, nineteen more like. I didn’t enjoy it much, but like much experience, once it’s over I can now look back with some fondness on the experience. At the time it was a dirty smelly dangerous, generally unpleasant experience.

It often amuses me that these days people go down Big Pit for a ‘day out’.

Gold, six years too late.

I too worked in a South Wales mine, but not at ten, nineteen more like. I didn’t enjoy it much, but like much experience, once it’s over I can now look back with some fondness on the experience. At the time it was a dirty smelly dangerous, generally unpleasant experience.

It often amuses me that these days people go down Big Pit for a ‘day out’.

Gold, six years too late.