Learning by doing All we wanted was a chocolate cake.  But in one of the old pottery towns of Staffordshire that meant getting into a ... Read on

Taking a child seriously That’s not a difficult question, at least for an adult.  But when asked by a bright, inquisitive six-year-old girl trying ‘to ... Read on

Sometimes it takes far too long for me to pick up a gem.  The gem that struck me so strongly last evening was contained in ... Read on

I couldn’t help paternal pride breaking out last evening as Anne and I went to the Mall Galleries in London with David our second son ... Read on

The first chapter of the book I finished writing ten years ago was entitled What Kind of Education for What Kind of World; Do we ... Read on

It is almost exactly ten years to the day that I completed the writing of The Child is the Father of the Man; How Humans ... Read on

It is said that there is really nothing new in the world, and that which comes around once will inevitably come around again.  Most of ... Read on

I am a complete stranger to the world of blogging but from what I have heard it could benefit my thinking as Director of the ... Read on