Saved by dinosaurs

How 'Jurassic Park' turned around my education

I was rarely engaged with popular culture as a child – for most of my childhood my favourite films were silent ones featuring Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, and at times I felt more at home in the silent era of the 1910s and 1920s than I did in the present. It came as a surprise to me as much as to anyone else, therefore, that in 1993 I connected so…