The Heart of an Independent School
An independent school shouldn’t lose sight of the practical realities of what it means to be a school: curriculum, timetables, the nitty...
Adding Educational Value
Adding value to the educational experience of each and every child, whether in a class setting or not, takes some work initially, but...
A New Cartography of Education
The rapid industrialisation of Britain throughout the 19th-century brought about a transformation in the education system: instead of a...
A New Renaissance?
It’s possible to imagine all data, all ‘bits’ of knowledge, including skills or extended experiences, floating around in space, randomly....
A Simple Poetry Checklist
Here’s a simple checklist for studying a single poem that tries to cover the different aspects that one ‘should’ know about any piece of...
The Futility of Essays
To meet the basic requirements for writing an English Literature essay in a school context, there is surprisingly little really useful...
What's Wrong with the Education System
(This article draws from an earlier article on this blog.) What’s wrong with education today is probably easy to sum up. Education breaks...
The Genius of Teaching
We are all pushed and pulled around by our environments. Mainly pulled. That’s because our attention is attracted, almost magnetically,...
Independent Learning Centres
Anyone interested in education in terms of what it really is and what it should be trying to do will probably not need much convincing...
Focus on Reading
Between August 29 and September 10, 2014, survey group YouGov managed a study in the US for Scholastic, a company that for 90 years has...