Lesson 3: The UK Education System

[leifang666]

It's been awhile, hasn't it? I figured as I have the day off work, I have time and motivation to write this. I've been planing this post for awhile but never got around to it. I'd like to start with a confession: I have never read Harry Potter. I found the book in my school's library way back when, read the back and put it down. I didn't think it

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[color_me_blue3]

I'm a fan of Harry Potter books XD there were certain characters that made me love them. I wasn't hyped about them till the 4th book, probably because they are a bit older there and I'm not particularly fond of kids as major characters (though GoT will be an exception I think). Anyways, I think JKR tried to make the school system somehow similar to what you described. I would expect anyone who read the books to notice... I read the English (non American) version so I don't know if they changed anything about that on the books...

[leifang666]

JK Rowling is English, so I'm sure the school is based on the English ones.

The only change I'm aware of is the renaming of "The Philosopher's Stone" to "Sorcerer's Stone" because American's thought other American's were to stupid to know what a philosopher was. Or something. Perhaps they just liked alliteration?

As for kids in books, I don't real count Game of Thrones but I do adore Percy Jackson books, and others by the same author. I think Percy is 12 is in the first book, but there's no romantic plot lines until later on which I think is good.

[color_me_blue3]

Well, then I wonder why fanfic writers would change the school system? I don't know if the movies made it as clear as the books... I tend to mix what I remember from books and movies so I wouldn't know for sure...

[leifang666]

Because we write what we know, and we don't even think about how it might be different abroad. Like I learned recently in America you can turn right on a red light, something that would be illegal here in the UK. Some junctions allow left turns (our equivalent of a right as we drive on the left side of the road) but this is through a filter arrow. (A red light with a green arrow pointing left (or sometimes straight on) lit up as well). I don't blame people for getting it wrong, I bet my fics are a full of mistakes when it comes to Japan, but ignorance is best fixed through education.

[lovelydagger23]

Aaah so that's what they mean when they say college in the UK. At first I thought it was what we meant, but then I heard them say "Uni." and realized their Uni is our college...and it confused the hell out of me. This really helps me understand a lot of things with school in the UK compared to here, and to a certain degree it makes more sense, and feels a bit more laid back, whereas they're stricter with your academic skills and requirements here (Even though in some schools they don't teach you enough from what I've experienced through my time in school.).

I'm very interested in the house systems, and even some economic history....as well as how you could come about deciding what you would like to do after your education. I hope I'm not asking too much. @.@

[leifang666]

How we decide what to do after education? I'm only just figuring that out and I'm 31!

What I want to do is learn how to do nails professionally, but you either seem to need to do beauty courses or an expensive 2 week course with CND Shellac and I have work as well and no money with no guarantee I'd be even able to make a profit doing it.