I went back to school when I was in my early thirties. We don't have High Schools in the UK and we don't have an equivalent to the High School Diploma but I left formal education when I was 17 (I had stayed on for a year) with a clutch of not particularly impressive qualifications in my hand and a thoroughgoing revulsion for the School System deep in my gut. I'd had enough and wanted out. Unfortunately I left just in time to be caught up in a massive recession. This was 1977 and the events th...