“Our fathers lied”
Image via Wikipedia 24hGold, a website devoted to precious metals, includes a randomly selected relevant quotation. Today’s: If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. This anti-war sentiment is uncharacteristic of Kipling, and so I had to look it up: where did it come from? When and why did he write [...]
Atlas Shrugged revival
(The first part of this post is cross-posted from another blog of mine). As well as re-reading Atlas Shrugged for the next session of my Reading Group, I’ve also assigned The Fountainhead to a returnee student whose English is fluent. I’ve been creating worksheets for him, and will be posting them online, possibly here. According [...]
Something is destroying British education, says former Chief Inspector of Schools
Image via Wikipedia Chris Woodhead, a man many teachers loved to hate when he was Chief Inspector of Schools under the Conservative and then Labour governments, 1994-2000, has written a book in which he expresses his views about British education. An excerpt was published in the Times (online), May 10, 2009. Fifty years ago the [...]
