Standard Education

Raising a child riding a bike

Many parents may well have gone through one of the toughest and scariest experiences in their life, along the lines described above; teaching our own child to drive can be a haunting experience!

By Tim Middleton Sep. 24, 2023

B & P fosters digital transformation

By Style Reporter Sep. 24, 2023

Sir Ramsay Melhuish: A diplomat’s love affair with Zim

By Andrew Melhuish Sep. 23, 2023

Parents as pianists

We may take the analogy further and consider that moving from becoming to being a parent will require a similar journey as someone moving to being a pianist.

By Tim Middleton Sep. 17, 2023

Incentive for initiative

People have been tired of the potholes in their roads and have taken to repairing them themselves, as those whose responsibility it is to look after the roads do not do so

By Tim Middleton Sep. 10, 2023

Just ask

We are encouraged to ask, if we want to show initiative. Asking questions, after all, creates openings.

By Tim Middleton Sep. 3, 2023

In it to win it

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out, try to get him out, and when he is out, he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 27, 2023

The only failure

Henry Ford was more specific saying "There is no failure except the failure to serve one's purpose.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 20, 2023

Education: Siniority

The main problem with ‘seniority’ is that it is usually based on, and therefore confused with, superiority.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 13, 2023

The parable of eating out

Hard times fell on that city, making it hard for the patrons to continue to eat out but they did not want to forgo coming to that restaurant.

By Tim Middleton Aug. 6, 2023

The commonwealth in education

Parents must understand that each school is part of a bigger commonwealth and part of a bigger picture than simply that school.

By Tim Middleton Jul. 30, 2023

It is well!

The story of Horatio Spafford is an intriguing, inspiring and instructive one.

By Tim Middleton Jul. 23, 2023

I dig it all

Modern commentators have thus divided mankind into various categories, in relation to their approach to the advance of technology.

By Tim Middleton Jul. 16, 2023

See you in six years

Too many parents have passed the buck to schools to educate their child in areas that they should be doing, not least in life skills.

By Tim Middleton Jul. 2, 2023

How long is a piece of string?

The means of measurement may not take into consideration other important factors. Determining a school’s status on results is equally flawed.

By Tim Middleton Jun. 25, 2023

Open doors

Our modern world is too interested in the froth, the superficial, personality, and not in the truth, the substance, character.

By Tim Middleton Jun. 18, 2023

All the world’s a stage

It is not just the sports field that is a stage, but the home, the school, the workplace, the marketplace, the business world, the whole world.

By Tim Middleton Jun. 11, 2023

What every parent wants

We are not too worried if other people’s children do not have the best teacher, as long as our child has the best!

By Tim Middleton Jun. 4, 2023

Well, wells, welles

One hundred years later, who then is winning this race? Has civilisation advanced? How close to a catastrophe are we? Is education succeeding in this war of the world?

By Tim Middleton May. 28, 2023

A thing with thons

With great creativity, we now have Cyclathons, Readathons as well as Primary Spellathons, Singathons — there are ‘-thons’ sprouting out everywhere!

By Tim Middleton May. 21, 2023

That’s not difficult

There is only one small problem with that, though. There are no difficult pupils or difficult classes!

By Tim Middleton May. 14, 2023

Vive La difference.

If we are going to do that, then education is going to have to be different from what it is now and what it has been.

By Tim Middleton May. 7, 2023

Keeping education shipshape

It might be an interesting diversion to consider what type of ship would serve as the best analogy for education.

By Tim Middleton Apr. 30, 2023

A positive position

It is what sells newspapers (bad news) and maybe it is motivated by the idea of “Do to others before they do it to you”.

By Tim Middleton Apr. 23, 2023

Fruit flies like a banana

Teachers are not fitting parts on to a new car; they are feeding youngsters with the ingredients to enable them to grow and to bear fruit.

By Tim Middleton Apr. 9, 2023

Fruity lessons

Some may be more popular but that does not make them the best. Different fruits grow in different climates and conditions. Fruit does not appear overnight.

By Tim Middleton Apr. 2, 2023