S17, Ep8 Yomi Adegoke on social media, mental health and reality TV
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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The Importance of Academic Intelligence in Secondary School
I was one of those kids at school that didn't necessarily try particularly hard, but I think there were different types of intelligence. The way school works, it is very much geared to a very specific type of intelligence. In my school they also had this assumption that like if you were good at like English and history and things with words that you're probably quite smart in science as well and maths. But I don't think I was certainly not in secondary school as academically gifted across the board as it was assumed. Then I got to uni and you just couldn't lag. You just couldn't. It was like the jump was so extreme. So yeah, that culminated in me failing
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