“Do you know why you are here?” Mr King asked us rhetorically, no doubt after seeing our bovine gazes over the last hour or so, as he attempted to drill aspects of organic chemistry into our unreceptive minds. “You aren’t really here to learn chemistry and I’m not really here to teach you the chemistry syllabus. Well yes I am, and you also need to get a grasp of what I am teaching you so as to pass your exams in a few months time. But that really isn’t the point of the exercise. What is really going on here is that we are trying to teach you how to learn.”