I return to the hot topic of education in my latest article for the Imaginative Conservative:
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/02/chesterton-and-the-meaning-of-education.html
Chesterton and the Meaning of Education
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About the Author: Joseph Pearce
Joseph Pearce is a Catholic author and biographer who has written about subjects as various as GK Chesterton, economics, and Shakespeare.
an interview I had;
‘This college is a juggernaut’
(me) ‘Yes’
‘We MUST move forward,
We CANNOT go back’
‘Yes’
‘We have been inspected for the fourth time and found to be ‘astounding’
‘yes’
‘But that’s not good enough’
‘We must improve on that’
(it was on the tip of my tongue to say -‘we must become astounding?’)
‘This subject…(ESOL basic English-eyes, nose, ears etc…)
‘This is not really a subject anymore
it’s a ‘specialism’
‘I see’
Arms up, hands in front of her face-shaking Hitlerian fashion-‘this college is a juggernaut’.
insane