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  • My brother is two years older than me and he was brilliant at everything, it seemed. He was captain of the cricket and rugby teams. We had this rather archaic system of head boys and prefects at my school. I was in my fourth year - in Scotland we finish school in our sixth year - and my brother had become head boy and brilliant at everything: academia, sports. In fact, all the things I wasn`t good at. Then he left and I couldn`t get my head round anything, so I became depressed and got in trouble a lot. I remember my mother driving me one night through heavy rain, with the windscreen wipers going. It was the first half term of my fifth year and she said that she`d spoken to my dad and that I could leave school if I wanted to. I`d only assumed that I`d have to stick it out until I was 18, but here I was being offered the chance to leave at 16. My whole world opened up. I couldn`t believe it. And I was out, as soon as she said those words. Ewan McGregor