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From Martin Luther King to Greta Thunberg … and a bit of Katniss Everdeen
Words are powerful. Words are, as Albus Dumbledore says, ‘our most inexhaustible source of magic’. And yet words are not always in written form. Words can be spoken, and some of the most notable changemakers use the power of the spoken word to great effect. Martin...
“There is no such thing as original thought.”
“There is no such thing as original thought.” That’s what I was told at University when I was 19 and trying to write essays. What my tutor told me – or at least, my interpretation of what they told me – was that I had to study what other people had said and I had to...
Is Progressive Education Really… Progressive?
Is Progressive Education Really… Progressive? I like words. I think about words. I dream about words. I sometimes wake up with words, sentences and paragraphs in my head. Words explain a thousand pictures. For me, anyway. I am looking at a new website – a fabulous...