• Orwell: On Writing Clearly

  

  10th February 2022

  This post is available to download as a PDF here, and is available as an audiofile below:   **** George Orwell (1946) once famously wrote that good prose should be like a window-pane,...
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• The Horrifying Real at the Mountains of...

  

  23rd December 2021

    This post is available to read offline as a PDF here, and as an audiofile below. ****   Last time, I proposed that sending students into the mountains as a metaphor for their...
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• Rethinking the Hard Path of Education...

  

  5th July 2021

    This post is available as a PDF here, and an audio recording below:     Nan Shepherd, best known for her novel The Living Mountain, was a Scottish novelist and poet who wrote...
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• Identity and its discontents

  

  30th May 2021

    This post is available as a PDF here, and as an audio recording below:     ***   You wouldn’t expect a blog on the PESGB website to contain a poem but why not, if...
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