C.E. Jottings

"Think. Innovate. Be yourself." Is there relevance for conductive education?

"Let's face it though, some societies are rather more amenable to the notion of transformative pedagogy than are others." (Andrew Sutton on Conductive World. "Is there relevance for Conductive Education?"). I'll let you work out for yourself the relevance I see in the cartoon by Peter Steiner. Or you can just have a good laugh. [Posted without his permission and with apologies, therefore, to Peter Steiner.] Read more →

"Making hope possible" - more of the essence of Conductive Education - with thanks to Raymond Williams and Neil Crowther

‘To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing’. A quotation I have just come across, liked and thought I'd share. Its original source is Raymond Williams ("Resources of Hope" - not a book I knew, from a cultural critic who was one of the high priests of radical students in the 1960s; compulsory reading while marching on the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square). I found the quote as a 'strapline' to the new-to-me blog "Authors... Read more →