MembersNEWNew in the Members’ Room: James Panton gives talks defending freedom in London and in Edinburgh ; Suzy Dean has a blog on youth engagement; Josie Appleton will be debating booze bans at Sussex University; Michele Ledda's petition against banning of a poem from the school curriculum has more than 100 signatures; Dolan Cummings writes on how anti-smokers are stubbing out liberty; Josie Appleton is discussing cities at a conference in Moscow; Manick Govinda has produced a new London exhibition. New on the Vetting Blog: Tenants turfed out for refusing to fill in forms; CRB checking tooth fairy; Children’s authors under suspicion; Flats halted because balconies have ‘view of school’. Read on… |
Michele Ledda on Scrabble in the school curriculumI was on Liverpool's City Talk Radio this morning, discussing the presenter Duncan Barkes's tongue-in-cheek proposal of making the game Scrabble a compulsory part of the school curriculum. He was, however, serious in believing that our education system is failing because it focuses too much on teaching subject knowledge, which is boring and puts children off. He hasn't realised that he is pushing at an open door - most educationalists are as estranged from education as he is and would agree that playing Scrabble is the best or perhaps the only way to convince pupils to pay attention to spelling. The link should be active until Wednesday 11 June. I'm on 2hr 20min into the programme.
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The Manifesto Club supports:Historians campaigning against 'memory laws'... 'Enlightenment is humanity's emergence from self-imposed immaturity. Dare to know! Have courage to use your own understanding!' Immanuel Kant 'What characterises man is his extreme abundance of imagination; therefore, that man is a fantastic animal and that universal history is the gigantic, continuous and insistent effort to go, little by little, putting some order into the crazy fantasy.' José Ortega y Gasset |
