Discussion: what you may learn from working a job before you start your education
Your exam question asks you to discuss what you may learn from having a job before you start your education, taking the short story “The School of Life” by Lauren Keenan as your starting point.
You must use at least two phrases from the box below in your discussion.
The short story presents the perspective that working a job before starting education can provide you with real-life lessons that cannot be taught in school. For example, Marcus is knowledgeable when it comes to philosophy or anthropology from the courses he took at university. Yet, he knows nothing about how other people may live. He does not know what it is like to have financial troubles and to have to...