Climbing to Freedom through the Devil’s Horns

By Les Visible
Some numbers of people have commented on the positions and the ways in which I hold my hands in some of the photographs of me online. I’ve received many a curious email and in some cases, people questioning why I would be making what they consider to be the sign of the devil’s [...]

Quote of the Day – The only real education…

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

Andre Gide

Quote of the Day – Education is what survives…

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

Quote of the Day – I have never let my schooling…

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Why are we fingerprinting children?

By Yvonne Singh
As voters express concern about surveillance technology, is it becoming second nature to the Facebook generation – used to publishing intimate details of their private lives on the worldwide web – who, in later life, may be less vociferous in their opposition to such schemes?
An increasing number of today’s schoolchildren are forgoing the [...]

Home School: A Quiet Revolution

By Michael Overall
Friends at college don’t always know what to think when they ask Chris Byrd where he went to high school.
“Really? You were home-schooled? Why aren’t you a freak?”
In Oklahoma, by some estimates, 33,000 children are facing that kind of question. If home schools were a district of their own, it would be twice [...]

Schools put ‘Big Brother’ CCTV cameras in classrooms to monitor teachers’ performance

By Laura Clark
Schools are installing CCTV cameras and microphones in classrooms to spy on teachers.
The surveillance technology is being used to check that pupils are being taught well and to expose poor teachers.
But the approach has provoked fury among teaching unions, who say the tactics smack of Big Brother.
Under the system, special training classrooms have [...]