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The making of teachers
A question of degree It is hard to fault David Cameron’s comment that, when a child steps through the school gates for the first time, ... Read on
No Comments »Hunter/Gatherers
The scenes of carnage in Haiti, following the earthquake of last week and the estimated 200,000 dead, is horribly reminiscent of The Road. Scenes of ... Read on
No Comments »Finding the missing piece
Intelligent behaviour One of the delights of Christmas is doing jigsaws. The easy part is sorting out the straight pieces, the hard slog is working ... Read on
No Comments »The Road
My sons are far better read in contemporary literature than I am, and if it were not for their frequent references to the power of ... Read on
No Comments »Introducing AML
The Apprenticeship Model of Learning Human behaviour fascinates us as much today as it did the philosophers of old. Yet it is only recently that ... Read on
No Comments »Old Year’s Night
With Christmas Day falling on a Friday and, so delaying Boxing Day until after the weekend, the last days of 2009 had the air of ... Read on
No Comments »The Evolution of Despair
Collapse of civility “Millions of Britons unable to cope with modern life,” the Young Foundation reported last week portraying Britain as a psychologically fragile society ... Read on
No Comments »Compliance
Death by Inspection “The more you trust people the thinner the rulebook, while the less you trust them, the thicker the book becomes,” declaimed the ... Read on
No Comments »Sound of Silence
Collapse of dialogue This is the blog I hoped never to have to write. Those who listen to the songs of the ‘60s will remember ... Read on
No Comments »Loaned by our Children
Pray for Copenhagen Today, the 7th December 2009, the leaders of 192 countries converge on Copenhagen in an attempt to prevent climate change from ravaging ... Read on
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