Broad Oak Magazine

Look at the first five minutes of this (thanks so much, JD) (for the impatient, from c. 3:30 on): Mother told by her father to sacrifice ...

Education dons gather for pre-prandial sherry in the Senior Common Room In the Mid-Western United States, we have species of cicadas, w...

The above clip is from a child's game called Raft Wars 2. As with the original, cute little characters (including a baby) bravely bat...

By Paddington Where others see conspiracy theories, I see badly thought-out plans. The Law of Unintended Consequences is, after all, a mod...

Throughout history, the university systems of the world have evolved from a monastic model, through the industrial model as a driver o...

(Giles' famous schoolteacher, Chalky White ) "Teachers must stop “reinventing the wheel” by drawing up special lesson plans ...

( pic source ) Leaders are not necessarily good for the group, or even clever. I once taught a class where I felt a boy had followers...

There are some children who would have special needs even if they had two loving parents at home; but they're in a minority. We onc...

A Daily Kos article currently circulating on Facebook compares American schoolteachers and childminders and calculates that teachers are fa...

When things go wrong, the modern meme is to blame the “Law of Unintended Consequences”, which is the modern way of saying “it’s just God’s...

To get the full feel of US culture, it helps to know a few things. One is Churchill’s correct observation that, “Americans do the righ...

Zere goes "Ze Art of Englisch"... ! "Textbooks are dying out in classrooms because teachers see them as 'regimented...

How can we undertake to bring up the young? In old days people were simpler and thought less, and so settled problems boldly. But we think ...

Buckle down, study hard, get qualifications, work hard and you'll get... nothing. (CNN) -- "She was a professor?" That...

The problem with teachers is not that they are rebellious; on the contrary, they are conservative and conformist. As I said a few days ago (...

Not personally, but collectively. Put yourself in the animal slippers of the girl below this Sunday morning: From the Daily Mail (prin...

"Paddington", a maths professor, writes to a local newspaper in Ohio: Public higher education is under attack from all sides. C...

Correction: when I said New Labour encouraged immigration specifically to spite their political opposition and alter British social identit...

Greg Mankiw thinks that correlating SATS scores and subsequent earned income misses the point that inherited intelligence are a factor in bo...

I've just watched Daniel Hannan's address to Americans on the dangers of a nationalised healthcare system. I, too, want America to c...