First published in 1984, this book focuses upon pupil perspectives of schooling from first school to school leaver, taking their thoughts and feelings as accurate assessments of their experience. The study presents what was at the time new thinking and research findings on a wide range of important topics to provide an insight into what life is really like `at the receiving end of' schooling. Such topics include: pupil interviewing, intelligence, learning, gender stereotyping, racism, disruption, school suspensions, examinations, youth training schemes, altered states of consciousness...