Trivium 21c ltd.

  “Beauty, which is what is meant by art…is no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life…”… Read more

For Oakeshott: “…education is not a technocratic process of creating future workers, or even a simple transfer of knowledge. It is an adventure, an initiation into what he called “the conversation… Read more

This is the text of a talk I gave as part of an excellent and interesting panel at the London Festival of Education, 28th February 2015, some of the words… Read more

“I’m wild again, beguiled again A simpering, whimpering child again Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am I…” Oh to be wild again, beguiled again, a child again… bothered, bewildered – the… Read more

In order to reduce workload the Government has decided to do nothing to reduce workload. This will come as a relief to many hard pressed, end of tether teachers, who… Read more

Ofsted judges schools to be 1,2,3,4 (‘Outstanding’, ‘Good’, ‘Requires Improvement’ or ‘Bloody Awful, Sort it Out! (Inadequate)). Many school leaders, teachers, children and parents baulk at this, knowing full well… Read more

This afternoon I attended a “World-Class Teaching Profession consultation event” run by the DfE and I learned something very useful indeed that could be crucial for any role that a… Read more

First they asked me to teach girls differently and I did not speak out because I was a teacher. They could tell what I was doing because, well, they were girls…… Read more