Democracy is a double edged sword. Without it, we have anarchy or totalitarianism. With it? Hmmmm. I did not vote for Brexit, yet live...

Splendes, splendeas in aeternum, Alma Mater atque amabilis Ironically, our Higher English candidates have just sat their Reading UAE...

 My name is writ in fire. But those who stand And wait: illiterate, see nothing but The smoke that swirls and coils around the end Of...

In my first years of teaching, I was spoiled. Naïvely, I believed that Sylvia Bisset was the norm. Since Crieff High School, I have met...

William Golding’s “The Inheritors” may be historically (pre-historically?) inaccurate in its depiction of how the Neanderthals were...

There are days when the teaching profession is the best in the entire universe, days so filled with joy that they make even the delights...

“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” “Not all who wander are lost.” It has been a...

*(Accepting that there are at least three different ways of spelling the word, and that the first recorded writings have it as ‘lodges’...

Mary was nearer the end of her career than the beginning. She had taught generations of young people. Mary was respected by her peers....

When I began teaching, we wrote with chalk, on a blackboard (which we were allowed to call a blackboard). There was a Banda machine in...