The Guardian on Tuesday featured a front-page headline reading:

“All school pupils to get a behaviour mentor.”

Are they looking for volunteers, I wondered?

Along similar lines, I wandered past a group of cute students from our local University last weekend. I wondered how many of the freshers now reaching the end of their first term might admit, deep-down, that they were struggling to apply the necessary self-discipline to their studies, and might relish (and simultaneously dread) some form of supportive mentoring when they return in the new year…

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