by thequillguy | Jun 9, 2019 | For Living, For School, For Students
Teaching students for fifteen years has allowed me to recognise some of the deficiencies of my early education. One choice every teenager needs to make in school is whether to follow a vocational or academic route. It is an impossible choice. I would define the...
by support_siteground | Jun 9, 2019 | For Students
by thequillguy | Jun 5, 2019 | Book Clubs, For Living, For School, For Students, For Teachers
The Vegetarian is a dark book that has sat with me for a few weeks now. Conventionally about the descent of a Korean woman into self-harm and mental illness via her change to a vegetarian lifestyle, it defies easy definition. Instead, I think it seeks to challenge...
by thequillguy | Jun 4, 2019 | For Living, For Students, For Teachers
In True Blood is another dark read, distinctly American and impressively literary. It is a text that manipulates genre, attempting to fuse a journalistic style with a free indirect discourse when presenting the perceptions of criminals. At its heart we meet our worst...
by thequillguy | May 19, 2019 | For Living, For Students, For Teachers
A student that I taught at the beginning of my international career spoke profoundly well at a recent TedX event. I was very impressed. She named dropped my Socrates creed that there is no difference between fake confidence and real confidence, at least as it presents...
by thequillguy | May 18, 2019 | Book Clubs, For Living, For Students
This is a young adult story about kindness and identity. Its story can instigate useful conversations in schools and homes about how we treat others, and therefore how we want to be treated. I found some of its presentations of school-life problematic, though. The...
