Second Chances Don’t Grow on Trees

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Pub Date 20 Apr 2022 | Archive Date 30 Jun 2022

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Second chances must be recognised for what they are, embraced enthusiastically and worked through with diligence and determination.

This is the true story of how a bunch of unemployed social misfits and scallywags from a tough, working-class urban slum find redemption and rehabilitation at the hands of a remarkable individual.

Former teacher, Paddy McLaughlin, who has battled some major demons of his own in the past, realises at once that underlying all the other problems of these unfortunate individuals is their serious lack of an effective education the first time round. He sets out to remedy this by creating his own little home-made college for the purpose, called (what else?) The People’s College.

It is not just about improving their qualifications and psychologically preparing them for a life-time in work - it’s about giving these dispirited and unpromising individuals, through the inclusion of a ground-breaking course in cosmology, an almost cosmic sense of their human significance and worth. And what can be more motivating - more inspiring - than that?

Second chances must be recognised for what they are, embraced enthusiastically and worked through with diligence and determination.

This is the true story of how a bunch of unemployed social misfits...


A Note From the Publisher

Over the course of his career as a teacher and Advisor, Patrick J. McLaughlin has published 13 well-received scholastic books on various aspects of the teaching of English. He has also written extensively for BBC Radio and Television; mainly short plays and docudramas on subjects of national interest and literary themes.

Over the course of his career as a teacher and Advisor, Patrick J. McLaughlin has published 13 well-received scholastic books on various aspects of the teaching of English. He has also written...


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• An engaging, upbeat, down-to-earth retelling of events in the author’s life leading to setting up the ‘People’s College’

• Full of hilarious incidents and anecdotes that are skilfully interwoven through the overarching narrative

• Offers insights of a sociological, philosophical and psychological nature through storytelling

• An engaging, upbeat, down-to-earth retelling of events in the author’s life leading to setting up the ‘People’s College’

• Full of hilarious incidents and anecdotes that are skilfully interwoven...


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ISBN 9781803139258
PRICE £3.99 (GBP)
PAGES 200

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