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The beginning
We have everything we could possibly want. Two healthy, happy boys, a dog, a cat, some fish, a house, jobs, a nice car and so on. But there’s something missing. And we’re figuring that out and we’re...
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love the life you live, live the life you love
“love the life you live, live the life you love” – Bob Marley This is one of my favourite quotes and it couldn’t be more poignant now than ever before. Every day I see people driving, walking or...
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The end of the beginning
Today marks the end of the beginning. After much hand-wringing, after many long nights agonising over our decision it is finally over. This morning we met with the head teacher of our son’s school,...
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Youthfulness as an attitude to life
One of the obstacles we face in getting older is our increasing timidity and our search for rest and comfort. It is important to shake the cobwebs from our selves continually and to challenge ourselves...
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The power of informal learning
There are two skills that society considers fundamental to becoming an adult. The ability to read and write, and the ability to calculate. They are considered so crucial that this becomes almost the...
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Into the future of learning with Sugatra Mitra
In his TED Talk, TED 2013 prize winner Sugatra Mitra takes us on a journey into how we will learn in the future. Mr. Mitra quite rightly points out that the school system as it exists today is not...
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When all you’ve got is a cocktail umbrella, make Lemonade
Learning happens everywhere, all the time. Even at 6am on a Thursday, learning to make Lemonade. This morning’s lemonade-making came about from the discovery of a single cocktail umbrella. The umbrella...
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reading, riting, rithmetic
The obsession in today’s early mainstream educational system is with the Three Rs: Reading Writing Arithmetic From our own experience this is certainly true. Whilst the first few weeks and months of...
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giddy up
Today’s day at home turned out a little different from the usual for everyone. I’ve been taking horse riding lessons twice a week this year. This is mostly because I had become as good as novice after...
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How I kicked high blood pressure in the a**
A few months ago I took my blood pressure and found it was high. Sky high. The values 170/120 spring to mind. This is officially classed as Stage 2 hypertension and is an extremely bad place to be for...
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Learn to break stuff
If you want to know how to build stuff you need to know how to break stuff. As a kid I’d spend hours either taking stuff apart or finding unusual ways to use stuff to figure out how it worked....
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When all you’ve got is a cocktail umbrella, make Lemonade
Learning happens everywhere, all the time. Even at 6am on a Thursday, learning to make Lemonade. This morning’s lemonade-making came about from the discovery of a single cocktail umbrella. The umbrella...
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Learn to break stuff
If you want to know how to build stuff you need to know how to break stuff. As a kid I’d spend hours either taking stuff apart or finding unusual ways to use stuff to figure out how it worked....
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