Standard Education

Smart thinking

Smart phones are all the ‘thing’; everyone must have one, even, it would seem, young children

By Tim Middleton Nov. 10, 2024

A cross to bear

By Tim Middleton Nov. 3, 2024

When good is bad

By Tim Middleton Oct. 27, 2024

It is all rather fishy

When it comes to stories about fish, we all know that they tend to be dubious and exaggerated; there is always something fishy about such!

By Tim Middleton Oct. 20, 2024

Unstoppable

However, words of a song (or from a teacher’s mouth), will not make them get started, let alone not stop.

By Tim Middleton Oct. 6, 2024

What the f is missing

The lie is missing the F. Education must bring life. Ten out of ten people need to know that.

By Tim Middleton Sep. 29, 2024

Lost or found

Too many children have been written off by society, by schools, by systems as being a lost cause.

By Tim Middleton Sep. 8, 2024

Upgraded!

WhatsApp would not change anything but What’s Up conceivably could.

By Tim Middleton Sep. 1, 2024

What are you making?

Many children nowadays are quick to advise everyone they are bored — there is nothing to do.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 25, 2024

Why not

Watch a toddler with this new-found ability to totter on two legs, wandering around in a new place, seeing what is there, what happens if they touch things.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 18, 2024

You are right

Going back in time, in the Bible we read of the children of Israel who sent spies into Canaan to ascertain what lay ahead of them, in order to fulfil the promise that awaited them.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 11, 2024

The nitty-gritty of integrity

The Speech Night, or rather more importantly the Prize Giving Night, is for the school to celebrate the achievements of the school

By Tim Middleton Aug. 4, 2024

Driven to destruction

We have drivers pulling out onto the road when there is no gap, expecting (or rather demanding) that others must slow down to allow them in, instead of waiting for a gap to appear.

By Tim Middleton Jul. 28, 2024

Seize and squeeze

That means that we must take firm hold of it with energy, force, passion, strength, rapidity

By Tim Middleton Jul. 21, 2024

Trunks of tree-mendous thoughts

Africa is certainly blessed with some amazing, contrasting, beautiful trees; there are so many different types.

By Tim Middleton Jul. 14, 2024

Default is the fault

Having quoted Einstein, what do we do now? A genius would perhaps leave it at that, and not try to explain what such a genius meant.

By Tim Middleton Jun. 30, 2024

Deserve or demerit?

Does it play any part in our education system or in our parents’ communication? Do we reward those who honour that charge?

By Tim Middleton Jun. 23, 2024

Masterminding special subjects

How we answer these questions about subjects will be very revealing; we may object to this subject, in fact.

By Tim Middleton Jun. 9, 2024

I still have not found.

Thirty years before the Me Too movement, there was another powerful force which began in the music industry.

By Tim Middleton Jun. 2, 2024

Don't forget to forget

Some people have astonishing memories and will remember the names of the cup-winning team from 1970 or the price of sugar in 2000

By Tim Middleton May. 26, 2024

Going ballistic over holistic

The curriculum we offer must be broad as it reaches all parts of the person – it must encapsulate not simply the academic but also the sporting, cultural, social and spiritual.

By Tim Middleton May. 19, 2024

Education: The seven steps

Modern society, in our drive for a healthy lifestyle speak of us taking not seven but ten thousand steps a day

By Tim Middleton May. 12, 2024

Who says?

Who Says’ is the title of a 2009 song by John Mayer, an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist

By Tim Middleton May. 5, 2024

Let them know!

That is the reality — many people do not see how great their accomplishments are, do not know how inspiring they are, do not know how beautiful what they are doing is

By Tim Middleton Apr. 28, 2024

Beyond boundaries

Despite his background, or perhaps because of his background, Robinson in one interview shared a helpful insight.

By Tim Middleton Apr. 21, 2024

Kids are just, but kids

George Carlin has recorded a wonderful piece about how we, as humans, have different attitudes when we are asked how old we are.

By Tim Middleton Apr. 14, 2024

What's so impressive

We tend to be impressed (as the world is) by those in high places with all their supposed knowledge, importance, uniforms, results, wealth, religiosity and pomposity.

By Tim Middleton Apr. 7, 2024

The wise answer the whys

Sports coaches are guilty of ‘play station coaching’, of shouting non-stop instructions from the sidelines to their players – a technique that does not help the players learn anything.

By Tim Middleton Mar. 31, 2024