Much like parents who profess to hate the academic arms race created by test preparation and tutoring even as they accelerate it, students profess to disdain the qualities that are part of the culture of any competitive public or private school (ambition, for example).
Unexpectedly, although I was far from the cockpit, I was finally involved in flying, partly fulfilling that high school ambition.
Though it had little impact on the American charts, The Who's mod anthem presaged a more cerebral mix of musical ferocity and rebellious posture that characterized much early British punk rock: John Reed describes The Clash's emergence as a "tight ball of energy with both an image and rhetoric reminiscent of a young Pete Townshend speed obsession, pop-art clothing, art school ambition".
That moment is shot in a night-vision green glow by Angel Salazar, the soldier with film-school ambitions, who embeds a tiny camera in his helmet.
Depending on whom you ask, GCU is a curiosity, a contradiction, or some combination therein: a small-school vibe (enrollment: 5,800 undergrads, a figure that swells to more than 31,000 once part-time and online students are included) with big-school ambitions, a regional hub that occasionally runs national television recruiting campaigns.
Putting a check on the law schools' ambitions was a key theme at the event, with speakers Lord Falconer and Lady Deech both backing the imposition of a restriction on the numbers embarking on the costly BPTC.
The firm says it wants to support schools' "ambitions and aspirations".
Our White Paper made clear that it is 'only one measure of performance and should not be the limit of schools' ambitions for their pupils'".
If the Christian schools' ambition and discipline attracted secular parents and the endorsement of the political elite, non-Christian faiths quite reasonably demanded equal access to state support.
