Caitlin Moran
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2,608 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 10 Jul
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And school isn't maximising our children's potential enough.
And they kind of hot hares you at home.
And then there's the second kind of home educating parents who just really cannot bother to get eight children to school at 8.30 in the morning.
And the minute they get their children out of school are just like, well, that's it.
We're done.
That's the end of that.
And they call it child led education.
It's that the principle is, theory is that a child after a certain time of being de-schooled, where you stop seeing learning as something you're being forced to do and you sort of detox yourself.
And you start to regain your natural curiosity that every child has.
After about six months to a year, you'll want to learn and you'll pack yourself off down the library and you will work out what you are interested in and you will become driven and specialise in what you enjoy.
And the annoying thing about my parents is that that is what happened.
We did all, after spending a year of lying around eating cheese and watching Bugs Bunny movies, just all find what we were passionate about and start studying it.
So it worked?
It did work, yes.
I'm peevish about having to admit that they were correct, but it was correct, yes.
Yeah, it was all pretty grim, to be honest, Giles.
We were very, very poor.
My dad was disabled in a lot of pain.
After the ban didn't work, he got work as a fireman and a rescue went wrong, so he was disabled after that and he was on benefits.
Yeah.
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