According to her nurse, Aunt Mimi kept this ruler as a memento of Lennon's school days, she had frequently warned him that he woulden't do well at school unless he worked harder. At school he was a rebel, although he sailed through his 11-plus examination, trouble really started when he moved up from his primary school to Quarry Bank High School...John soon decided that he had no respect for most of the teachers, and academically he plummeted..Day after day, Mimi would berate him. The reports coming from school told of his indolence, his troublemaking and his potential expulsion unless he changed. And every time she scolded him, Lennon would say something like: 'I know what I want to do, and it's not coming from the teachers. It's in here'. And he would bang his chest...