The Process and Action of Reading
Something that we take for granted, something that you are doing right now, is the process and action of reading. The word comes from Old...
Educational Alternatives and When to Employ Them
There is probably a ‘critical mass’ when it comes to traditional education - the kind of schooling that we have all become accustomed to,...
Designing Lessons That Work
In designing a lesson, you are trying to do two basic things: 1. Transmit a knowledge or skill in such a way that it seems like part of...
Another Look at Child-centred Learning
In the Internet Age it’s become commonplace for businesses to view the entire globe as a single giant ‘shop’ through which humanity (or...
Five Simple Parenting Tips
Parenting - probably the most important job of anyone’s life. And yet there is no formal training or real preparation for it. Here are...
The New Education Part 2
The rapid industrialisation of Britain throughout the 19th-century brought about a transformation in the education system: instead of a...
The New Education
Earlier in this blog I discussed various formats through which education occurs, in one way or another, for children. Some of these give...
Re-designing Education
Imagine a small circle representing a child’s world; then imagine next to it a much larger circle containing the knowledge that human...
Starting a School?
Now that the education market has started to open up, are you thinking of starting a private school? It goes without saying that it’s a...
Education and Social Engineering
Education wasn’t always delivered in the way to which we have become accustomed today. In the Middle Ages, education was seen as a...