Willie Sutherland talks about alternative school lessons

What was the school like during the war?

It was just pretty well normal, just, there was no difference when the war came. They just, ye got the strap just the same if ye did something wrong. No, there was no, the only difference was, there was a slogan came out, 'Dig for Victory' and a farmer arrived wi' two horses and he dug up part o' our playground and there was potatoes planted in it and we'd till go out and plant them, so it was much better than Geography or History, out planting potatoes. And then, later on in the season, ye'd to go out and lift them all, ye know. So apart from that, it was pretty much the same, ye know, yeah.