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  • Educate for Freedom

    Education discourse has become focused on the need to get children a good career with high earning potential and the creation of great character in a meritocratic society but education is… Read more

  • Nicky Morgan and the EBACC OUTRAGE!

    Nicky Morgan said in her recent speech to Policy Exchange that: I think every child should study maths, English, history or geography, a language and the sciences up until the… Read more

  • Teaching The Trivium. Rhetoric A-Z: A

    My lesson plan for the teaching of Rhetoric continues to be used by many teachers and schools yet it is not the end of the story by any means. Once a student… Read more

  • The Curse of the Quick Word.

    Part of the stress of working in schools is the short amount of time people have for adult to adult interactions. Staff become institutionalised, the bell controls the bladder, brings… Read more

  • The Empty Classroom

    The great theatre director, Peter Brook, wrote that: I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else… Read more

  • Teachers! A Call to Arms!

    “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” GK Chesterton We need to summon up the spirit of, the albeit fictional, Ned… Read more

  • Voices Joined, Not Silenced.

    Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and the… Read more

  • Is There Such a Thing as a Crap School?

    Crap means something of extremely poor quality. I think a school can be of extremely poor quality. That does not mean all the constituent parts of a school are of… Read more

  • Hashtag Fail

    It seems yesterday, October 13th was the ‘International Day for Failure‘. I mean, is this a hoax? A joke? I failed to notice, which, I suppose is apt. I did… Read more

  • The Madness of Lesson Observation Checklists

    Checklists can be useful and they can be a curse… In a recent blogpost David Didau looks at how checklists can be useful and also about how there is life beyond them, here… Read more

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