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Category Archives: Children
Getting To Know Me
We all need to make some contact with other people in order to develop our potential as unique beings. To take one example, we would never learn to talk in an easy way unless we are not hearing talk going … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiography, Children, Early Years, Parents
Tagged bringing up children, parenting
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Children – Let Them Get On With It
What usually grab the headlines are great disasters. The publicity aroused by the rescue of the Chilean miners was well deserved. This does indeed have a real reason for raising our spirits. For once in a while a lot of … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Education, Parents
Tagged Alice Miller, Jack Kennedy, Poisonous pedagogy
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Offstead – Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!
I read in my Saturday paper that at long last pupils will be taught to spell and learn grammar. About time too and the younger the better. When I was a child I enjoyed doing spelling tests every week. I … Continue reading
Motivate by Enthusiasm
If we want to lead a satisfactory life, we do work we enjoy in the most productive way to yield good results. To achieve this it is vital that we learn how to manage motivation and control. They go hand … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Education, Power and Control
Tagged churchill, education, motivation
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Let it be
The whole of this last century the study of the importance of conversation has been ignored except for the work of Harvey Sacks and those who followed him. Without Sacks’ work we haven’t been able to focus enough on helping … Continue reading
Saussure, Wittgenstein and Harvey Sacks
Saussure, Wittgenstein and Harvey Sacks did not prepare lectures. They went straight into the classroom and started to talk. Of course they were teaching in universities to young grown-ups who already had a stock of knowledge picked up from schools. … Continue reading
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Tagged harvey sacks, Saussure, Wittgenstein
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Perfection is a Waste of Time
You won’t believe this but Ofsted has interfered so much in education, with pressure from the government, that at the beginning of each new academic year all teachers in comprehensive schools are obliged to attend the day before to be … Continue reading
Posted in Behaviour, Children, Education
Tagged harvey sacks, Ofsted, perfection is a waste of time, Saussyre, Simon Rattle, Wittgenstein
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Changing my Mind
Before I was 6 or 7 years old, I had already decided that I wished I was a boy. It seemed that men had all the fun. Father went off to his office in the Civil Service in London and … Continue reading