Syria:
Sometimes facts can leave us knowing less than we did when we started. That’s how it seems to be at least. I think it’s part of the problem of spending so much of my life in education. I know how to read facts, I know how to analyse facts. I know how to memorise them and criticise them and reproduce them in essays. And since I’ve left university and begun working in a school, I’ve learnt how to teach other people to memorise, criticise and reproduce facts too. What I seem to have forgotten how to do is to actually think about what these facts mean.
Sometimes facts can leave us knowing less than we did when we started. That’s how it seems to be at least. I think it’s part of the problem of spending so much of my life in education. I know how to read facts, I know how to analyse facts. I know how to memorise them and criticise them and reproduce them in essays. And since I’ve left university and begun working in a school, I’ve learnt how to teach other people to memorise, criticise and reproduce facts too. What I seem to have forgotten how to do is to actually think about what these facts mean.