Oscar : I reckon that girls learn differently, because what they do is, when they get a piece of work they…
Shaun : They seem to rush it.
Oscar : Yes, they sort of put it into their book, like paraphrasing it so they have their own reference to a piece of information they've been given, but with boys they get that information and they sort of mould it, they sort of reshape it, so it's in different form, and they put different ideas into it… You could say that girls have a tendency to learn like people would probably learn in the late Victorian times, and boys learn like most people would learn now. (interjections confirming this thesis)
Oscar : I think there's two ways of learning really, there's sort of copying and getting information into your head…
Brendan: And getting it right.
Oscar : And getting it right. Yeah, and um… Staying within the perimeter, you could say. And then the other type is sort of learning, taking information, and then putting it down in a different form and then sort of piecing it together like a puzzle. (Boys' friendship interview, Millbank) (Creese et al., 2004, pp. 194-5)