Education: confronting the confusion of tongues
I’m sure that my Christian and Jewish friends see it differently, but from my secular and humanist perspective, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel i...
Category: History
The Reflective Teacher as Reflective Learner
The teacher has a place of honour in human history; there is an inherent nobility in teaching that persists even today when perhaps the teacher’s true wor...
Putting the Makar in the Maker Movement
The makar has been an exalted component of Scottish literature and culture for more than 600 years. The makars were the makers of poems, the ancient poets and b...
Deschooling YOU: The School & the Sovereignty of Knowledge
For as long as school has existed, the fundamental model of schooling has remained the same: scarcity of information and a paucity of means of access to that in...
The Learning Society: social and economic progress through education
The printing press sowed the seeds of social and economic progress, heralding a time when ‘change itself [became] the archetypal norm of social life’...
The Penny University
The coffeehouse was a place for like-minded scholars to congregate, to read, as well as to learn from and to debate with each other, but it was emphatically not...
Learning in Abundance
So I then came to define education as learning under the assumption of scarcity, learning under the assumption that the means for acquiring something called kno...