Forty years ago I was sent by the lady, who lives at the end of the Mall, for a year at UMIST Manchester. Along with Army, Navy and some overseas personnel, we were there to study for what became a Masters degree in Management Science.
Some of the lectures we received were pretty 'cringe worthy' and one series related to studying human behaviour, which included the wonderfully named 'personal self actualisation'. The tutor told us that we needed to seek our true inner selves to realise who we really were.
This was too much for one of our number, an Army bomb disposal Major with a Queen's Gallantry Medal. At this stage he said: "If you want to understand who you really are, try spending three months on the streets of Belfast". That brought the lecture to a fairly swift conclusion and ensured future lectures were a tad more realistic from our viewpoint.
O-D