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Hamnet, good or manipulative?
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Martin Robinson
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Martin Robinson
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Author: Trivium 21c; Athena vs the Machine. Education Consultant - Substack: substack.com/@martinrobinso…
- We live in a society where people are arguing against segregation in toilet facilities and for segregation of train carriages
- Children throughout the country have had their curriculum narrowed by lockdown, the answer to this problem is not to narrow the curriculum when they go back to school. Breadth really matters.
- Glad to see my daughter’s school has replaced ‘dressing up’ for world book day with: ‘reading books’ and ‘swap books’ you have read for others they haven’t... it’s almost as if they think reading is important
- ‘Remote Learning’ should not mean ‘spending all day in front of a screen’
- Can’t help thinking that the summer holidays would be more fun for educators if there were a teacher transfer window in August. ‘A school in South London has bid twenty quid for the ageing drama teacher, watch this space!’
- The main job of a school isn’t to help pupils get high grades, it is to help provide meaning. This is the function of curriculum.
- Teachers “not at more risk than many other professions” of getting infected with COVID:
- ‘The teacher stare’
- Getting good grades at school is a family affair, not just down to the child:
- School uniform is possibly, now, the most formal attire most people will be expected to wear, regularly,in their lives
- What makes a lesson ‘fun’ is deep intellectual involvement not doing a word search or making a poster
- When people go to see a school play not many complain about the ‘rote learning’ of the script and the stressful ‘test’ of the performance where the fine line between failure and success is exposed to immediate feedback from the audience.
- A growing trend for management to organise workplace ‘well-being’ sessions are, probably, misplaced. Let people go home earlier and don’t expect them to access workplace emails outside working hours if you really wish to alleviate unnecessary stress...