I have worked as a teacher for over 15 years, working with both with children and adults, in private as well as in public schools. As an...

“I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions – a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education...

“Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this...

As adults, and as parents in particular, we tend to focus on ‘short-term results’ when it comes to our kids. But what is seldom...

The world as we know it is at a crossroads, a crossroads where the old is colliding with the new, where past generations feebly cling...

How do you raise a child? My answer: you don’t. Have a look at how a child learns to crawl, stand and walk. The child does that on its...

If I were to illustrate what it is like to be a child in an adult world, it would be an image of being surrounded by lots and lots of...

“If you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own – we leave them...

As teachers, parents and adults in general we have become accustomed to categorizing the people we meet into neat little boxes of...

“We stand upon the precipice of change. The world fears the inevitable plummet into the abyss. Watch for that moment…and when it comes,...

Education can be defined and reflected upon through many layers or dimensions, some of which are more pure and practical, where others...

Education is a process that each new generation goes through, to learn about the ways of the world so as to effectively integrate into...

I regularly publish momentary reflections to my Facebook wall; reflections that emerge in moments of inspiration and often in passing...

A discourse of paranoia is slowly but surely creeping into the core of our education systems and if you are a parent who has a child in...

I’ve written several blog-posts inspired by Gatto’s work. You can read one of them here. Recently I asked John Taylor Gatto a question on...

I am a teacher who writes about education and although this post is not about education, it does (as all things do) eventually come back...

A couple of weeks ago I walked into a teacher’s lounge where a teacher in his thirties was giving advice to one of the teaching...

Standardized tests and  archaic curricular that must be rushed through in a matter of months, are filling up the classrooms. At the same...

“A child does not have to be motivated to learn; in fact, learning cannot be stopped. A child will focus on the world around him and long...

“We don’t yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if...