Relationships Improve Student Success
(PhysOrg.com) — When students are underachieving, school policymakers often examine class size, curriculum and funding, but University of Missouri researchers suggest establishing relationships may be a powerful and less expensive way to improve students’ success. In a review of the research they show that students with positive attachments to their teachers and [...]
Introduction
There is nothing inherently good about education, schooling or learning. Learning can be either very good or very bad, depending on what is learnt, how it is learnt and what it is designed to do. Clive Harber (p7)
A question I have asked myself many times is: what is education and what is it for? [...]
PREFACE
A lifetime in education taught me the lesson of deferred gratification, which is really foregone gratification. It taught me to accept the unacceptable; to detach from the screams within; to pursue the academic without feeling, well not without: sometimes with boredom, sometimes with fear, very, very rarely with exhilaration at an idea that resonates. That [...]
