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The Education Revolution: Pledge

Posted by | Published on September 18, 2011

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Darcy Moore I am currently listen to the live stream from TEDxLondon of the #EducationRevolution. Here are the speakers and […] 

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Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms

Posted by | Published on October 17, 2010

Sir Ken Robinson‘s narrative about education is a powerful reading of the institutions at the heart of our societies. It is ‘a reading’ difficult to dispute.  […] 

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The Handmaid’s Tale #review and my #reading in April  →

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“Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won’t do that again.” The Handmaid’s Tale p. 307 I suspected re-reading The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood prior to viewing the Tribeca film festival […] 

My #reading April 2016  →

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Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in a daze, wondering if the […] 

Homage to Stansky and Abrahams: Orwell’s first biographers*  →

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“I request that no memorial service be held for me after my death and that no biography of me shall be written.”  (Eric Blair, 18 January 1950) “Perhaps Orwell was […] 

Did Orwell smoke opium in Burma?  →

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George Orwell spent five years working as a police officer during the 1920s before unexpectedly resigning to become a writer. There is compelling circumstantial evidence to suggest he experimented with […] 

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