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Dulwich Street Art

I love the idea of the Dulwich Outdoor Gallery. In 2011, Ingrid Beazley who was working at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, met Stik, the street artist, and showed him round the permanent collection. From there, the project was born and fairly soon walls across Dulwich and Peckham were given modern interpretations of old masters. Today,...

Pupil Curiosity

Prof Coe’s 2013 talk has aged well, I think. I’d forgotten this prompt, but it’s a lovely way of framing the challenge of teaching curiosity. “If your pupils knew the answer, but didn’t know why, how many would care?” Improving Education – A triumph of hope over experience from CEM on Vimeo.

Even idleness is eager now

From George Eliot’s Adam Bede [via the brilliant Brain Pickings] Surely all other leisure is hurry compared with a sunny walk through the fields from “afternoon church”… Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them: it only creates a vacuum...