Breaking eggs

I spoke at a TEDx event in Norwich a few years back, about how the education system often fails to recognise and support youngsters with exceptionally high IQ. I threw an egg across the room to make the point that too often, bright youngsters find themselves excluded from school because they don’t fit the system.

I failed my 11+ and so went to Leiston Secondary Modern School. Years later I joined Mensa and later still in my mid-60s, went to university, graduating in 2020 with a creative writing MA.

In 2013 I set up Swarm Training CIC to provide young people who had been told they’d failed, with an alternative way to prove their worth to both their employer and themselves.

Here’s that TEXDx talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nJf1wu1HeY