An Academically Minded Rambling

I left school with issues towards the education system that I was already struggling to deal with, but was not that consciously aware of. I always had mixed feelings towards the way people were handled in a one size fits all system. I was then presented with a very glamorous and unattainable view of HE, and once rejected from that, placed it to some extent on a pedestal. The inability of my precious academia to even open itself to my alternate concepts then had the effect of devaluing my own research, as I would never have considered myself up to standard, and of corroding my image of the academic institution. It also constituted a working class school style slam down, and indicated a lack of openness to research ideas that were out of the main playing field. This then is some of my major experiences of research after a life in education from 1996 to 2021.