Fysics_Teacher

It will be interesting to see how many pupils end up transferring to the state system, and whether the cost of this was accounted for in the estimate of the money raised by the policy. Anecdotally we… (View Post)

I was briefly a millionaire in “89 when I found myself in Belgrade for the day on my way somewhere; I think it was the equivalent of about £50. (View Post)

I have occasionally helped prepare students for university interviews. The hardest thing to get across is that sometimes the better answer to a question is “I don’t know (though it might be…)” rather… (View Post)

I think we all have large gaps in what we know: the best one can do is try not to be confidently wrong. One of the hardest lesson a teacher learns is that sometimes the answer to a student’s question… (View Post)

One of the brightest people I know is now a maths graduate who is now a professor at Oxford. After he graduated I had a conversation with him where I had to explain the causes of the seasons (he thou… (View Post)