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Good morning. It's three minutes after 10. You are listening to James O'Brien on LBC, where I am now of an age.

I'm not entirely sure whether your children have gone back to school yet or not. Some have, some haven't. Some state schools do. Some state schools don't. Some private schools go a little bit later. Sometimes they go a little bit earlier. But we're in the zone, aren't we? We're in what I like to call the protractor zone. You find yourself strolling up the high street. Do you remember how excited you used to get when you got that little? Did everyone get one every term or every year, every September? You got that little tin with all the stationary in it. I was quite deprived as a child. I only say that because I know my mum's listening. I was quite deprived as a child. Being sent to one of the most prestigious public schools in the country. I'm very deprived

as a child. And I was often ordered to cobble together my stationary kit from previous years. So,

you know, you'd have your protractor and your compass and I might nick something off my sister.

But why was that so exciting? You know, you didn't like school, did you? Particularly, you certainly didn't like, but I don't want to do that anymore.

I'm trying to grow out of that looking down on maths things,

because I think it's one of the things that could cripple our country economically moving forward.

We need to start really lionising maths and revering maths instead of revering,

sort of bloviating PPE degrees.

But why did we get so excited?

Do you remember, W.A. Smith would be full of all the posters still is, actually.

Reimond, back to school, everywhere you go.

The posters in the bus shelters, back to school, back to school.

And you'd get so excited about buying stationary. Why? You didn't

enjoy the lessons in which you used the stationery. Why would you be excited about buying a new

blinking protractor or a compass? Do you remember the really skinny ones? The really, the round yellow

ones. Do you remember those ones? Was that, the really skinny ones? The round yellow ones.

Do you remember those ones?

They're full circle 360 degree protectors.

I quite like those.

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