Ampleforth College - My Teacher's a monk

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• CA

  @catherineloftus1376 · 3 years ago

  What an amazing place Amblethorpe is.

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• MI

  @MikeBuckland1954 · 7 years ago

  Terrific to see Fr James whom I knew at university.

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• BO

  @boltonkevin · 8 years ago (edited)

  Ampleforth looks the same now as then.

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• RI

  @richardbenitez7803 · 8 years ago

  From the states, I really enjoyed this production of a boys school, then a boys/girls school. As an active catholic person, I was laughing throughout all parts of documentary........especially the part of serving wine to a gathering of students/teachers then 4 boys got really drunk. Ha ha !  What was really funny was the monk/teacher was almost trying to act annoyed and angry. I don’t think he really was angry. If he was upset with the boys this is the mildest upsetness I’ve ever seen. Then I laughed even harder when the punish was for two week ends they were grounded and could not visit the chicks at pub. Wow. Such torture!  True catholic monk discipline ......I don’t think folks get it. True monks are absolutely not severe people. They are total softies. I know from own personal experience. I’m sure the boys think school at ampleforth college is torture. Ha.

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• JO

  @johnfrancis6762 · 5 years ago

  The school was not that bad, a real and true old amplefordian would not complain or criticise. I had many happy years at ampleforth, I miss all and wish all well. I hope the school stays, fingers crossed! A few bad apples should not spoil it for the majority who were unlike them. God bless Ampleforth.

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• MI

  @minui8758 · 2 years ago

  Loved my time at Ampleforth. Extreme nostalgia from this

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• CH

  @chriscoleridge2140 · 10 years ago

  i enjoyed this.

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• MA

  @MarkJohnson-dr4ws · 9 years ago

  An extraordinary school. I hope the students, past and present, don't take it or the values it tries to instill, for granted.

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• SI

  @sitri2000 · 6 years ago

  God this brought back so many memories and so many faces of old friends and mentors. There was a lot of good and bad there, just like anywhere. I remember when this was filmed and thinking how they cast the school in such a bad light, but they did highlight some of the big problems.

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• AG

  @agni2003 · 11 years ago

  These monks are not strict at all!

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• DA

  @danguerriero3094 · 9 years ago

  When I think of my education with public school filth I am envious

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• SO

  @soli1234awd2 · 1 year ago

  H-Hour podcast has interesting situations displayed like in this doc, though it’s a much wider range than religion / education