I wouldn't go that far, but I agree they are highly privileged. If I'd learned history from him, I would have been enthralled.

Get a life

What's ironic is i'm starting to realise why education is important it doesn't excuse teachers being shit at their jobs though.

@@southwest3369 Says you who clearly has no other hobby, dipshit.

@@MrBannystar your name describes your mum

If you'd got into Cambridge he would have been.

same. society rewards bad behaviour and it's totally wrong.

What a pointless field to study in

@totalgod90210 The squeaky wheel gets the grease! How did studying History work out for you and what did you end up doing after University?

Did you get a job in the end with that history degree?

I think that is because he himself is VERY interested in History .

I don't know, at least half of them look to be pretty well engaged, unless it's clever TV editing. They seem like pretty good kids.

zoot soot I agree.. at least they’re trying.

THICKOS

+Liz Clegg They aren't thick...

@@PassageOfChrist they seem to know next to nothing maybe?

@@PassageOfChrist all that and, crucially, *what* they say - they're as thick as pig shit

it is !

better late than never, in the UK the metric system is the official system however road signs are still in miles and many many many people are so used to the imperial systems of measurements for things such as height in feet and inches and wight in pounds and ounces etc. I think the cost of changing the road signs to km would just be too ridiculously high and it would annoy many people in the UK. On a personal note using feet and inches for peoples heights just seems so much more correct for me. like i'm 6,1 or whatever rather than 185cm. Also i find it very strange how countries who claim to fully use the metric system France or Germany for example use imperial measurement when measuring surf boards i've never seen a surfboard sold in cm never in my life surfboards are always sold in feet and inches. Not sure why this is can anyone help me?

We use both, interchangeably

Thank you. Twitter @carlcodiewest (one of the students)

Pure snobbery i'm afraid. Whether people are poorly educated or not doesn't mean anyone else should look down on them. They're showing the willingness to learn, that is the important thing.

Low standards I guess

Big Sigma actually, women played perhaps the most essential role of bringing up the youth. Also, in many monarchy's women played a vital advisory role.

But this is such a simplistic interpretation of things. By and large, no one had any rights at all, unless they were noble. And if you laid a handle on a noblewoman, you were in for a terrible time. You also fail to recognize any sort of informal power, not to mention the female monarchs that ruled their own Kingdoms (or Queendoms, if you prefer). I don't know why I bother. I can always count on feminists and their 'allies' to oversimplify things in the least charitable manner possible.

You mean like Eleanor of Aquitaine? The only catholic woman to ever get a divorce out of the Pope, from the King of France no less. Whose army he had to politely request to borrow so he could go on the crusades like a big boy, and acted like a child the entire way there because she was a powerful woman and he couldn't handle it? And despite all of this she's dragged out of a war chamber where she was planning the war with her uncle and generals, by her husband, and locked in the bedroom on her ship. And nobody did anything about this because despite all the power she wielded, she was still "just a woman"? That's patriarchy, mate. Maybe feminists HAVE studied history - and you need to study feminism rather than tilting (see, jousting joke, you condescending simpleton) at strawmen.

@@katsilva4277 What a ridiculous feminist cartoon interpretation. "The only catholic woman to ever get a divorce out of the Pope, from the King of France no less." How did she do that if your patriarchy was so all powerful? "Maybe feminists HAVE studied history " Yes, but never with a view to finding truth. *Always* with the primary purpose of re-interpreting it through a ridiculous feminist viewpoint - in order to use it for propagandizing their ideology. "You need to study feminism" I have. Andrea Dworkin, Gloria Steinem, Catherine MacKinnon, Germaine Greer. Feminism is a self serving, navel gazing political ideology dedicated to serving 1. itself and 2. 50% of the population. It deliberately set out to destroy the institution of marriage and the family unit and was successful and hence been an unmitigated disaster for optimal child rearing and by extension social relations. It's denigrated and undermined the role of motherhood, and caused women to lose the choice to be a homemaker. Camille Paglia is the only feminist worth listening to - but she's been ostracised by the extreme lunatics that now call themselves feminists. Feminists are and always have been the useful idiots used by the revolutionary leftists to accomplish their goals.

Asinine? That's way too big a word for a peroxide blonde stupid bitch who doesn't know that men are physically (and I'm willing to say mentally) stronger than women.

He's asking them questions and they're engaging. They're not being disruptive per say.

GraemeMarkNI I would mostly agree. What are they like the cheeky little fuckers.

Hark at the paragon of masculine virtue here.

I haven't seen it before, but the intention seems to be to inspire a love of learning in these failing students. I don't find myself sneering at either Starkey or the students, instead I'm really enjoying it. He clearly inspires interest in them and he's inspiring interest in me.

Liz Clegg Good for you Liz. I feel like a sourpuss now.

i thought north american kids were disjointed from society, but after watching a few of these vids im totally shocked.. these kids may be 17 but they have the mental capacity of a 11 year old.. these children have such an amazing heritage and they could not give less f*cks about it.. empty vessels..

What a stupid comment. The school is supposed to take the students from the least-privileged backgrounds, who have been victims of poor teaching, both in school and at home, and to give them a taste of a 'dream-school' where you have your dream teacher in every subject. The intention is then to show the power of good teaching and instilling enthusiasm in learning, which many of the people watching the programme also may have missed out on. A lot of the teachers are fantastic and deliver great lessons. How has this gone over your head? How are we supposed to sneer at David Starkey? It also does a great job at bringing out the sort of dumb, snobbish comments you see in the comment-sections of this video from people who look down their noses and just insult the children. Like you: "these children belong in vocational schools to become hairdressers and fork-lift truck drivers". You're a prick. And an example of why a lot of the least-privileged children don't have a hope of bettering themselves with people like you grinding down any potential aspiration.

Judging by the sucking of lollipops and the chewing of gum, the swearing, the constant moronic shouting out, the falling asleep and the general stinking attitudes on display in more or less all of these videos, none of these insufferable brats have a 'dream teacher'. Or any dreams, come to think of it, at least ones that don't involve joy riding or alcopops. It also speaks volumes about Channel 4's politics that a group of their executive producers think that this kind of behaviour warrants reward. You're correct about bad teaching by the way: kids used to learn things in school, now they're simply indoctrinated with all the worst aspects of modernism and learn next to nothing about things like self restraint, culture, decency and philosophy, which goes some way to explaining why the majority of the group behave like chimpanzees when a lesson is being given. I blame the politicos.

You are a mental midget compared to him

@@kingpoostick actually I'm an intellectual Titan compared to that droning little bore.

What activities do you want? Should they all start jousting?

I'd love this in school, your method we did in school and it was shit