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What was (or is) your favorite subject in school?

I didn't really go to school all that much. My attendance record started to slip the moment I started secondary school, and gradually got worse - I used to make myself ill in order to avoid school. By the time I reached the third year, my lack of attendance was so bad that I ended up seeing a child psychiatrist, who treated me perfectly.

What did he do? He made it my choice as to whether I went. He gave me three options. I could move to another ordinary school; he could sign me off as unfit to attend, and I'd never have to go again; or he could place me at a special school, one where if I didn't want to go, I didn't have to. I chose the last option, because although I didn't like school, I loved learning. It worked because he gave me the choice: I made my own decisions, and effectively became responsible for my own schooling.

So I went, and after a few more years ended up with a first class honours degree, a dislike of schooling in general - and a feeling that I was dreadfully lucky to be around at a point when schools like the one I ended up at were well funded. In today's school system, I doubt very much that I'd have had the option.

Oh, and favourite subject? All of them. I always was a renaissance man.