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Education/Domestication

Look at a lion in captivity. It is bored, its muscles weak from sitting all day waiting to be told when it is time to eat. Sometimes I feel like so many education environments I have worked in are like a zoo. The children are the animals, put in cages for their...

When to Fight and When to Move On

There are numerous petitions cropping up to try to push the UK government to stay in the EU This isn’t a good way to spend our time. The people already voted. Unless you get 31 million people from the UK to sign this (without fraud), this isn’t happening....

Mass Media Manipulation 101

Manipulation 101: “Theresa May has issued a late-night statement saying she “does not agree” with Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries entering the US, after coming under intense political pressure to condemn the...

Education is a Relationship, Not a Test Score

“At the heart of education is a teacher and a learner, and we have over time obfuscated that relationship with every type of accretion and distraction. We have syllabuses, we have testing regimes, testing companies, political ideologies, political purposes,...

Resolutions for 2017 – Publish your Intentions

2017 is a new opportunity. It is a chance to change your story, but it often doesn’t go the way you planned and by February you’re back to your old habits. One reason for this is that you haven’t really changed any of your habits at all, and just...