I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have a long-term interest in the humanities.
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.
My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.
My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.