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The photographs are a means of making ‘real’ (or more ‘real’) matters that the privileged and the merely safe might prefer to ignore. P4

-“we need to stop thinking that grades are equivalent and comparable - a disadvantaged pupil who gets a B may have done vastly more to achieve that grade, and be far more capable than an advantaged pupil who gets an A.” P220

-“‘Flow’- Psychologist Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi- happiness comes from being in a state of flow. The level of difficulty and your own skill are calibrated so it is difficult but you can do it.”
“Education enriches us by teaching us the joy of skill and challenge.” P214

-“rather than employing or selecting on the basis of being the best why not choose on the basis of being above a threshold: being in the group of people who would be capable of making the most of this opportunity.” P74

-“Oxbridge are not picking between one student with three Cs and one with three A*s. All of them will have combinations of As and A*s. Really the process of selection is one of trying to make the most fine grained judgements, when that simply isn’t possible. It’s like choosing the best fish at the fishmongers when they all weigh the same. I mean one might be better but you won’t know until you eat it.” P74

P69 the marshmallow test

-“the hidden curriculum. The term was coined by Philip Jackson in 1968 .” The idea that the national curriculum is responsible for the transmission of explicit knowledge. But there are also a separate set of skills, norms and assumptions that are implicitly taught by the wider environment the child is in. P52

40-43 Robinson
-“factory model that educates kids in batches and destroys individuality.”
-Rousseau’s Emile- “crystallized enlightenment views of children as ‘little scientists’” -child-centered approach, discovery learning

- “And somehow we all accept that’s okay. It’s okay to have your education blighted by the chance assignment of social privilege- but not for it to be held back by ‘rogue algorithm’. P5

- “as teachers were agents of the status quo trained to weed out those who don’t fit into neat rows.” P2

-“it sprang from the fact I spent a lot of my time in the schoolyard during lunch break. This kind of thing sounds unimportant, but any teacher will tell you it’s vital. By being in the yard you become visible, approachable, invested with a kind of permanence and omnipresence that goes beyond your classroom.” P1

Keeping my record of quotes here:
- “and that in acknowledging and embracing the personal, subjective way that we perceive education, we might actually get a better understanding of the ways it can be made to serve us all”

I love her so much

‘Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion and Russian democracy advocate who now lives in exile in Croatia, opined, “The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”’
Need for epq

‘Cue the running debate right now in my country over free speech. A growing number of voices are calling for restrictions to the First Amendment. And while I’m firmly on the side of free speech over censorship, I do agree that words can cause harm; ideas can be weaponized.’
Epq

‘This is a fine example of what C. S. Lewis called “chronological snobbery,” the innate human bias to think we’re smarter than
people who came before us and therefore new ideas are naturally better or more truthful than old ones.’

On page 16, life already changed. Need to check if the beginning actually happened; if it didn’t I might not read anymore. Very funny. Kind of thing I’d do.