What’s so great about making mistakes?
To err is human Alexander Pope Making mistakes is an inevitable part of life. We’re all wrong about something at some point. Obviously contending with failure, learning to drag ourselves up by the bootstraps when we fall down and persist in the face of setbacks is...
What’s the point of school?
In The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker argues that “education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at.” Schools have only ever existed in cultures where culturally specific knowledge has outpaced universal folk knowledge. What is...
Democratic Education is no Utopia
Don’t say goodbye to Mr Chips!!! Maybe it's because I’ve read Lord of the Flies but I’m not sure putting children in charge of education is the best thing for them, our schools, or, indeed, all of our futures. In her ‘Utopian Thinking’ piece in the Guardian, Rachel...
‘A Mountain of Words’, Emma Young, New Scientist, 11th February 2017 pp. 34-37. Part 1: Speed Reading
This article examined (1) the research on speed reading and (2) the relative merits of reading a physical book, newspaper or article as opposed to reading from a screen. I am going to discuss (1) this week and (2) next. The internet, emails, texts and Twitter all...
Four Ways Teachers Can Support Students of Color
By taking a few specific actions, teachers could be doing an incredible job of helping students of color reach their full potential. Continue Reading →https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/students-of-color/
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