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  • On Independent School Education for Pupil Premium Children

      In this morning’s Daily Telegraph Shaun Fenton the headmaster of Reigate Grammar School writes that: We should increase social mobility by using state funding to open access to independent… Read more

  • When Push Comes to Shove: Kant’s Dove

    The dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space.  Immanuel Kant:… Read more

  • Pokémon Go! Must We be Servants of the Present Moment?

    Think how useless a teacher’s greatest labours are now, when he tries to lead one single student back to the infinitely distant and elusive Hellenic world, the true homeland of… Read more

  • Theresa May Went to my School

    In her foreword to the book School Songs and Gymslips Theresa May née Brasier wrote: I went to Holton Park Grammar School in the 1970s and during my time there… Read more

  • My Worst Job Interview

    I was running late, grabbed some toast, said goodbye “good luck!” came the reply and with that I set off, no worries I thought, the school will offer me coffee…… Read more

  • Remove Managerialism from the Classroom

    Managerialism is the idea that quantifiable administrative approaches are the correct way to run institutions. Efficiency is all and it can sometimes be value free in that what works becomes more important… Read more

  • Avoid the Brexit Classrooms

    It seems some classrooms have embraced Brexit fully, these classrooms can be spotted easily because you need a passport to enter them and sometimes a boarding pass too. On exiting… Read more

  • Schools and Freedom of Speech

    Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions David Hume Try as we might to be rational beings, devoid of emotions, especially in times of crisis… Read more

  • A Call for Competence!

    Originally posted on SurrealAnarchy: Do you remember the days when people voted Conservative because of economic competence, calmness in the face of a storm, ability to know what to do… Read more

  • Time to Ditch ‘Those’ 21st Century Skills

      We are living in interesting times… The future is glimpsed through a glass, darkly and, indeed, there may be dark times ahead. A concatenation of unfortunate events are all… Read more

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