Reflections as a Global Educator
“Existence flows past us like a river: the “what” is in constant flux, the “why” has a thousand variations... So it would take an idiot to feel self-importance or distress. Or any indignation, either. As if the things that irritate us lasted.” - Marcus Aurelius "Every ending is a beginning. We just don't know it at… Continue reading When to close a chapter & recognise the World has moved on.
“Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are” Theodore Roosevelt. There are a lot of conversations in education. Probably too many. All trying to look around corners and see what comes next, mostly out of fear that no one really knows what will come next. That is the problem with the zeitgeist… Continue reading What comes next? Looking ahead to the second half of the 2020s.
I think the entire year, past few years, in the words of the poet Sylvia Plath, have been an “odd uneven time”. To top it all off this year has been an incredibly difficult year to write about any of it apart from a few educational articles I have managed to produce. Any creative spark… Continue reading “The odd uneven time.” How to reconnect to purpose.
‘Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions’ It certainly doesn’t need a blog post to make this statement clear and obvious to anyone who has children or thinks in the longer term. Or cares about the future even. But sometimes even the most obvious truisms need repeating from time to time. When… Continue reading Teachers are our precious assets.
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