TV presenter Sandi Toksvig has recalled how a school she attended once warned her father she was not keeping up in lessons, and would be better off studying agriculture.
“My father laughed so much, he was crying in the office,” she said.
Toksvig remembered the moment a headteacher at a “school that shall remain nameless” suggested she wasn’t keeping up and “should maybe think about going into agricultural school”.
“That’s not a good way of deciding whether somebody is clever or not,” she said.