childhood

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…

4 years ago

The Games They Played

A recent visit to Montreal found us at the MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal Fortified with coffee and breakfast…

5 years ago

Sports Report and the Spots of Time

It's a late afternoon on a winter Saturday of my childhood. And that means the big Ferguson radio - the…

5 years ago

#SherlockPoems and Nostalgia: Claude McKay and D.H. Lawrence

I've been looking for a particular poem for a while now. When someone used the hashtag #SherlockPoems in a Twitter…

6 years ago

Artistic Pretensions

When I was ten or eleven my primary school class was taken on a trip to Blenheim Palace. Big excitement…

7 years ago

The Golf Links

The Manumit School was an experimental Christian socialist boarding school in Pawling, NY. and later Bristol, Pennsylvania. Manumit means freedom and…

7 years ago

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Did you have a special place as a child? Perhaps somewhere secret and magical? A corner of a city park,…

7 years ago

Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School

Not a very effective way to get children to love school and enjoy math. But looks like it was an…

8 years ago

Palermo: The Art of Learning

The Gallery of Modern Art is located inside the restored 15th century convent of Sant'Anna and has many works of…

8 years ago

Light Blue Touch-Paper

Growing up in the UK in a certain era meant that you got to play with fireworks. I have no…

9 years ago

The Folly of “College and Career Ready”

For those of you who concerned about our children's future - and I would think that includes all of us -…

9 years ago

How well are our children?

By chance I discovered this wonderful document Growing Up in Ireland with its photographs of a lush green landscape and quick…

10 years ago

The Perils of EdSpeak: Play in Danger

As a follow-up to my post The Perils of Education I was preparing a piece on play.  My chief concern…

12 years ago

Child Education Magazine – a window on the past

On my recent visit to England I came across a small trove of Child Education magazines (published by Evans Brothers…

12 years ago

The Graphic Advice of Wendy Mogel

I loved the addition of graphic artists at this year's NAIS Annual Conference. It was a marvel to watch them…

14 years ago