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Why education matters

  • June 5, 2007
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They scoffed at the time. "What use is that?" they said. "Why don't you do English at Oxford?"

"Because the interview went so badly that within the first eight minutes we were somehow talking about Flat Stanley," we said. "Anyway, Media Studies might come in useful."

And we were right. Because without that degree from the University of Sussex — and we needn't remind you that we achieved an impress­ive 2:1 — we could not even BEGIN to com­pre­hend the com­plic­ated semiotic genius of this com­pil­a­tion album sleeve.

School: Blackboard.

Rock: AC/DC font.

That's got to be worth an MA, at least?

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