The summer holiday means I am absolutely immersed in my PhD . I mean from 7am to 7pm, reading, writing, reading, writing, coffee and regular two-and-a-half hour trips to London to visit the fantastic Educational Settlements Association archives (quite close to Kings Cross = only one bacon sandwich, hot drink combo from Greggs) and the Workers' Educational Association archives (quite far from Kings Cross = two bacon/hot drink combo from Greggs). At the latter, I discovered this fantastic piece of writing from my favourite education man crush, R. H. Tawney . I think I am going to have to crowbar a chapter about him into the PhD, which means more trips to London and the archives, ah all day in a library during a nice summer day. What can be better? Anyway, enough of my ramblings. Get your pedagogical brains around these beauties, taken from a speech given by Tawney to the Co-operative Movement ... Education has always meant not simply the accumulation of knowledge, or the perfecting ...
Education Blog focusing on English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and EAL, ESL and some bits about my PhD, enjoy.