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Category Archives: Education
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
Keep Your Hands Off Education
I’ve just read an interview of Nigel Fanshawe, an ex-headmaster of a grammar school who is nearly 100 years old. Like me, he came from a background that was very short of money, passed his 11 plus and worked his … 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
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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