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  • Bring Back Rhetoric!

    Forget 21st Century Skills! “What we need is not new, but perennial. We need an art that integrates body and soul and recognises enduring and underlying principles, which have sustained wisdom and insight throughout humanity’s history.” The artist and punk: Billy Childish (with Charles Thomson), Remodernist Manifesto (2000) I wrote a piece this week for Read more

  • How Traditional is the Teaching and Learning in Harris Academies?

    Michael Gove has divulged the name of his hero: “Lord Harris of Peckham”. Harris is a ‘Conservative millionaire who is saving schools’. In the piece Gove claims that Harris Academies are: ‘led by traditionalist teachers who refused to accept excuses for failure,’ and that: ‘traditional teaching, the celebration of knowledge, discipline, respect for adults, a Read more

  • Trivium Schools Update September 2014

    It is very exciting when a teacher approaches me and tells me about the work they are doing to implement some of the ideas from my book Trivium 21c into their ethos and practice at their school. As this has begun to happen more and more it got me thinking about ways I could help share these Read more

  • On Eudaimonia: Simply Outstanding Is Not The Best

    I received an email last week accepting an invitation I had sent to a teacher (for the sake of this blog let’s call him Mr Micawber) asking him to talk at a conference on the liberal arts (October 14th put it in your diary, details to be released soon…) Anyhow, what was interesting about the email Read more

  • Engaging With a Humane Education

    Here is the text of a talk I delivered at the ‘NTEN-ResearchED-York Conference’ on Saturday 4th May 2014. The beginning of the talk draws heavily on the wonderful Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.   The Arts are subjective and difficult to measure accurately; do they belong in our data age? If you Read more

  • It Was the Worst of Times; It was the Best of Times: Are Our Schools and Kids Awful?

    In yesterday’s Daily Mail they ran the following headline: “The worst behaved pupils in the world? You’d better believe it: As a study says schools are even more anarchic than we thought, the shocking testimony of a once idealistic young teacher.” What followed was an article reflecting on a survey about how our pupils are rated Read more