Slow Education

In the summer of 2006, I, along with about fifty other eager undergraduates, filed into a bright auditorium at Concordia University’s downtown campus in Montreal to begin Psychology 280 – Adolescence, a required course for would-be educators. Looking back, I now see how this course managed to be both a spectacular failure and, in its […]

As an enthusiastic long-distance walker and voyager, I have come to recognize the similarities that can be found between a child’s education experience and that of a long journey. A child’s education experience is, in many ways, comparable to that of someone undertaking a pilgrimage, in that it presents an opportunity for a potentially transformative

When ninetieth century British statesman Robert Lowe declared rather conceitedly “if it’s not cheap it shall be efficient; if it is not efficient it shall be cheap,” he was capturing the essence of the Revised Code, a scheme warmly introduced into British education in the mid-nineteenth century. To say that the Revised Code was all