Media Studies? Kids Would Be Bet Ter Off Becoming Engineers
Evening Times › November 20, 2007
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TOM CONTI is a delight to talk to, always candid, always funny. Where so many celebrities choose to play it safe and offer up the most anodyne comment, the Paisley-born actor speaks his mind.
And what a wicked, incisive mind it is. Politicians, he reckons, are for the largest part dimwits. Governments, he maintains, do their best not to educate young people - they're afraid of people thinking for themselves - and youngsters themselves are all too obsessed by the idea of fame.See the full content of this document
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Media Studies? Kids Would Be Bet Ter Off Becoming Engineers
Schools, says the actor, writer and director, rather ironically, should not have "pointless" drama departments.
Instead, more academic subjects should be taught.Most importantly, kids need an early direction in...See the full content of this document
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