Month: September 2016

The Future Fallacy

September 24, 2016

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.   Thomas More, Utopia The future fallacy occurs when someone makes a comment about what the future will be like and then says: ‘therefore we should be doing (insert something here)…’ The 21st century skills argument is exactly … More The Future Fallacy

For Theresa May: On Grammar Schools and Private Education

September 16, 2016

I offer the following as a ‘what if?’ A little train of thought to add to the grammar schools debate currently raging through the veins of the educational world. I offer it to Theresa May as I think it solves many of her problems with the policy as currently envisaged, however it also opens up … More For Theresa May: On Grammar Schools and Private Education