My mind wandered back to 10 years ago when I first stepped foot into the school, only worrying about things like my friendship bracelets, and now I was expected to leave everything I ever knew behind.

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When one of my old middle school teachers discovered Facebook, one of the first things he did was to upload old photos of his prior students.

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Austrians tend to believe (and my own beliefs are on the fringes of that school) that things will generally sort themselves out, that intervention is likely to make things worse.

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Ms Ludin - who now works at a private Islamic school in Berlin - said the state was equating the headscarf with "things I already distanced myself from during my own school years".

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From my excellent drama-school teacher in London in 1970, I learned two things about speaking Shakespeare that I still practice.

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