Bad news sells. We live in a world of 24 hours rolling news. Emergency follows crisis, follows failure, follows catastrophe. Our diet of educational stories is more often stacked full of pessimistic …
The Indefatigability of Hope
(Image sourced form the excellent http://art.zerflin.com) Barack Obama famously wrote about the ‘audacity of hope‘. Unfortunately, such audacity was always likely to be quashed under the crushing weight of partisan politics. Is it …
The Teacher Expert and the Cynic
“In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired; In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.” Lao Tzu (cited by Karl E. Weick) Most of us know, or have known, …