Education | Schools | Culture

A reflection on educational and social issues, prompted by
students, peers, community and world events.

2024

Parenting and Teaching: The days are long but the years are short

My youngest child left a few days ago for University abroad; he is the last of three to leave home. The trip to the airport [...]

2024

Election Time: Certain Danger

As is clear from current US elections and other events around the world, certainty will move a certain proportion of the population. Say something – almost [...]

2024

Authenticity – what’s really going on?

Last term I was talking with a student, seeking to understand how he felt about a particularly difficult set of circumstances and behaviours. He described [...]

2024

Are schools more like factories, prisons, gardens or fairgrounds?

I was late for an appointment at the weekend, and needing to get to 27th floor quickly, I found myself pressing the lift button again [...]

2024

Teaching. How hard can it be?

When I was a student I used to trampoline. When I got to the stage of twisting somersaults, I used to get a bit lost [...]

2024

What They Forgot to
Teach you at School (?)

The start of a school year is much like an anniversary or a birthday. Often exciting and energising, it’s also a reflective and thoughtful occasion, [...]

2024

The Mundane and the Magnificent

Last July and again this December I took the chance to be in landscapes large in rock, sea and sky, which for me always seem [...]

2023

Taking sides

The last six weeks in Israel and Gaza have shown the best and the worst of humanity. Most of us will have read about or even [...]

2023

Chesterton’s Fence

I have long been quite critical of the US College admission tests – the SAT or ACT – from afar. They are largelypencil and paper [...]

2023

Education and Indoctrination

We have had a great start to the year, getting to know 60 talented and enthusiastic new teachers from a diverse range of backgrounds, and [...]

2023

Shut the Phone Up

What, if anything, should we do about mobile phones for the various ages of students? Parents and teachers: This is something too important to miss [...]

2023

With all the uncertainties:
What changes, what endures?

Earlier this year, we hosted the first breakfast for alum who now have kids in the school, and we also welcomed alum from the then-St. [...]

Education | Schools | Culture

Parenting and Teaching: The days are long but the years are short

Election Time: Certain Danger

Authenticity – what’s really going on?

Are schools more like factories, prisons, gardens or fairgrounds?

Teaching. How hard can it be?

What They Forgot to Teach you at School (?)

The Mundane and the Magnificent

Taking sides

Chesterton’s Fence

Education and Indoctrination

Shut the Phone Up

With all the uncertainties: What changes, what endures?

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What They Forgot to
Teach you at School (?)

With all the uncertainties:
What changes, what endures?