yes, I know there should be an apostrophe
Be…
eager to learn
investigate, explore, play, experiment, discover, and question.
interesting
embrace your oddity, novelty, strangeness, complexity, and uniqueness.
accomplished
carefully, scrupulously and fastidiously hone talent, ingenuity, and skill.
…curious
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Being academic
see more: Being academicIn the introduction of my book1, I wrote: “to be academic is to be conscious of what you know and how you know it to be so.” A few people have picked up on this and asked me to elaborate. Being conscious of what you know is to be self-aware. This encourages self-reflection and, crucially,…
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George Monbiot on denial
see more: George Monbiot on denial“Denial is everywhere. I have come to believe that it’s an intrinsic component of our humanity, an essential survival strategy. Unlike other species, we know that we will die. This knowledge could destroy us, were we unable to blot it out. But, unlike other species, we also know how not to know. We employ this…
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Creativity in Theatre-Making
see more: Creativity in Theatre-MakingMy book is out now, published by Routledge. It is about how theatre-makers like myself, my colleagues and students, think of our relationships with each other and how some of this thinking causes obstacles that impede effective theatre-making. I propose that the root cause of most of these problems is when theatre-makers’ relationships are perceived…
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John Holt on teaching the wrong things
see more: John Holt on teaching the wrong things“We always find out, too late, that we don’t have the experts we need, that in the past we studied the wrong things; but this is bound to remain so. Since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we…
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Imagine If…
see more: Imagine If…Imagine if there was a poetically succinct, jargon free, optimistic and inspiring manifesto, which offered up solutions to not only the primary flaws in most mainstream education systems, but also the greatest challenges humanity faces. Such a wondrous text has been published. Imagine If… creating a future for us all is a summary of the…
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Bertrand Russell on University Education
see more: Bertrand Russell on University EducationNearly 100 years ago, Bertrand Russell wrote: “The idle rich who at present infest the older universities very often derive no benefit from them, but merely contract habits of dissipation”. (p301)1 We might wonder how much has changed with the passing of a century. The line is one of many gems from Russell’s book Education…