Days Of The Old Schoolyard

THE rock biz is populated with everyone from postgraduates (the Offspring's Dexter Holland, molecular biology PhD; the Velvet Underground's Sterling Morrison, English PhD) to teachers (Gene Simmons, Sting), high school students (be your own PET), the home-schooled (Kings of Leon, Hanson) and the drop-outs (pretty much everyone else), so it's not surprising that education - or, perhaps, mis-education - is such a large part of the rock'n'roll vernacular.

Students Dump Hsc Lore

THOUSANDS of Illawarra high school students are giving up maths and biology to learn how to make a coffee, produce a concert or build a picnic table.