Did your parents “scrimp and save”

My father never tired of telling me how he and my mother had “scrimped and saved” to send me to good schools.

I ran away from the first and hated the second.

But I would like to thank the ghost of Bill Melton who have ma lasting love of languages and was a wonderful inspiring teacher.

Before we go any further, I am not going to sellyou antying – just pass on some advic3e

I never expected to end up teaching myself, but it is perhaps the thing I love best. It gives me the greatest joy that every day or so someone writes and says I’ve been a help. I got such a message just now.

I think good education can conquer every disadvantage.

Over the last 42 years I have done lot of training – for my own agency, for Ogilvy and Mather, for American Express – and for so many other organisations in so many cities that I have lost count.

If you would like to know what I have learned from all this, go here for a few thoughts.