Driving to success

I was talking to a driving instructor recently, and was reminiscing about my terrifying glory days kangaroo-jumping around behind an L-plate.  He told me that driving instructors face an even more difficult task these days, as many of the young people they are instructing either stopped attending school or lost interest in being taught anything years before they learn to drive.  As a result they are out of practise at being taught, and also find it very difficult to assimilate the fact that they cannot avoid doing the test in order to drive.  "Convincing them that if they do not change gear in the way I am showing them, or stop braking at the last minute, they will not pass their test is a real struggle.  They have been independent for ages, even though they are only sixteen or seventeen, and they have lost the concept of the right way being the only way."