Schooling Squared

French schoolchildren use squared stationery from the get-go, the British lined. For a long time I did not so much go to bed early like Marcel Proust, but wondered why?

When I look at this tho' I can see its proportions at a glance ~ and we shall build one, Gromit!

Probably the reason Airbus is headquartered there though, and not here. Nor are we in the UK ever likely to change, our decisions taking decades before finally being... ruled out.