Education
Guilty as Charged
Long ago, but not so far away, but decades before DEI rebranded itself as Divide, Exclude, and Intrude I too…
Lying to the Young is Wrong
In his day, the Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko' was something of an international rock star whose readings could fill sports…
Back-to-School: First Grade
First Grade by Ron Kortgee Until then, every forest had wolves in it, we thought it would be fun to…
The Learners’ Manifesto from Frank Smith
A six-point manifesto from psycholinguist Frank Smith - another of those items found in the basement. I must have prepared…
Get the vaccine. Climb a drainpipe
As is ever the case, I found these images on the IWM site while actually looking for something else. They…
Where does Good Enough Come from?
It was Donald Winnicott, of course, who coined the phrase good-enough in connection with parenting. He first introduced the term…
Good Enough
The signs are everywhere. Along with so many other institutions, schools - and all those who work in them and…
The School Mission: Wayward Academy or St. Etheldreda’s?
Because I wrote a piece about starting a school I began thinking about school missions. Mostly about how alike they…
A Bit of History
I was pleased to be invited to contribute something to Trevor Day School's 90th Anniversary magazine. This is what I…
School Sabotage and Survival
I've just read Back To My Beginnings by Paddy Staplehurst. It's a memoir of growing up in St. Etheldreda's in…