Advice to kids: Be a cad! All through school, if you keep your head down and aren't any trouble to anyone, it'll do you no good at all. To succeed in life you either need rich/influential parents, a lot of luck, and/or considerable talent. For the average kids: If you act up a bit you'll be classed as "disaffected yoof" and eligible for all sorts of rewards for acting like a human being for 50% of the time.