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# Yes, an Irish [high]school education ....
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/yes-an-irish-highschool-education/
- Published: 2005-06-22T22:35:41.000Z
- Updated: 2005-06-22T22:35:41.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Misc

…. was very much like [this](https://www.dervala.net/archives/000759.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net).  
\[Note: non-Irish readers will have to read the above post to fully understand the rest of this one.\]  
The “perceived prestige of high points requirements” that is described was very real. With a decisiveness that has marked my subsequent career ;-), I switched successively from law to engineering to English.  
Several years later, I turned up at the Dental Hospital in Dublin for some treatment. I ended up seeing somebody who had been in the same \[high\]school as I had been. He was very puzzled at what I had done, especially when I had had enough points to be a … dentist 😉