Tag: Education

Total Results: 176


Detail of The School of Athens mural in the Vatican by Raphael, with Plato and Aristotle at the centre. Photograph: Godong/UIG via Getty Images
01/28/2020 - 12:00am

Why kids today should get hooked on the classics As a post-Christian crisis of meaning undermines the West, we should learn lessons from the pre-Christian world

Gareth Roberts

Tuesday, January 21

21.01

Boris must be bold: it could save lives Norway has eradicated child road deaths. With the same political will we could fix our own intractable issues

Ian Birrell

Monday, December 23

23.12

Brexit has exposed our education apartheid The referendum threw full light on the worsening education divide that cleaves our society

Matthew Goodwin

Friday, November 15

15.11

Why child labour beats school The working environment allows kids to interact with adults, adopt their social norms and learn skills

Ed West

Tuesday, September 17

17.09

We aren’t getting the best from our brains What would be madness in healthcare is standard practice in education.

Peter Franklin

Monday, September 16

16.09

Why you can’t dress up a state school Despite our progress, there's a reason the education gap is so vast between the state and private school systems

Polly Mackenzie

Tuesday, September 10

10.09

Who needs schools anyway? What homeschooling taught me – and my kids

Roy Peachey

Monday, September 9

09.09

The schools that Britain forgot

Peter Franklin

Friday, September 6

06.09

Lessons in landing a rich husband At my school, learning too much was forbidden

Tanya Gold

Thursday, September 5

05.09

The victims of a liberal education

Helen Thompson

Wednesday, September 4

04.09

Sink schools rob kids of their futures

Julie Bindel

Monday, September 2

02.09

Boarding school put me in my place At my Quaker secondary I learned that society does exist

Justin Webb