It feels good to be generous of my time with students, trying to help them academically, to nurture their self-confidence and to know them as people, a… Read more “Feeling good about immaturity”
Category: Global Education
Loose definitions for global education are flying around all over the place. My definition is this: educational thinking and practices that can help individuals to feel happy and empowered to create a peaceful and prosperous world.
The 11th Commandment (for educators)
There will be times when you know you have done something wrong. Instead of harbouring feelings of guilt, you have a couple of options.
Reflections on “Authority” in PALT
The demystification and weakening of authority from above in all spheres of life, and the corresponding empowerment of individuals — the strengthening of individual and personal authority— is an important elem ent in the long-term overall process of “globalization” (defined here as humanity’s realization of its unity).
“Intimate” discussions with George
The published and forthcoming posts on George Whitfield in this blog — and many of those on other aspects of life at Hampton Grammar School — document the removal of one of the strands of cloth used in my own educational mummification. It is a narrow band that I am particularly happy to now see waving in the wind, and I’ve attached it as a tail to the high-dancing kite that is my life.
A New Year question: What does “Do your best mean?”
With these simple understandings at the heart of any family or any curriculum we can create the kind of world that we want. It really is simple.
Graduate level laughter
Knowing how to and feeling free to respond to people as individuals first, students of a particular field second, seems to me to be the essence of a holistic approach to education.
Reading and a feeling of guilt
George J.N. Whitfield, nicknamed “George” by all the boys at Hampton Grammar School, was a no-nonsense authoritarian educator — a real establishment character who inspired fear and… Read more “Reading and a feeling of guilt”