Mark Twain once said: When I was twenty, I realised my father was totally ignorant. When I was twenty-one I was amazed at how much he'd learned in the previous year. (View Post)

So what this person is saying is that the first flight to Rwanda will take off in 770 years' time? Well, that timeframe seems optimistic to me. But you never know. (View Post)

One of the big worries I have about a new national curriculum is it may end up teaching solely to exams, which would make that particular problem even worse. (View Post)

Wonderful Scottish joke: A minister in Dumfries was preaching on the text of 'love thy neighbour.' 'Who is our neighbour? Our neighbour is the Turk, the Mussulman, the Chinaman, the Fr… (View Post)

Now that is a sensible approach. From all I hear, it's not quite the same now (although I only really hear rumours) but it's what would work if we had a centre willing to let go. To give a … (View Post)