“Bottle” – beautiful animation

Very moving images

Education White Paper Nov 2010

Transforming Teaching and Learning blog: Alistair Fitchett:

“I meant to post this word cloud of the Education White Paper a few weeks ago but depression set in and I never managed it. Here it is. And as an extra, you might want to play Word Count Top Trumps. It’s a fascinating (if deeply depressing) game. Here are some of my favourites (if ‘favourite’ is the correct word…): Behaviour (64) trumps Learning (46) Discipline (14) trumps Writing (1) Armed Forces (5) trumps Arts (0)”

Education White Paper Word Cloud

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

Antonio Gramcsi

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/10023/

Mick Hume (Spiked online editor) sums up a seductive political stance of the moment, drawing on Gramsci – the early 20th century Italian Marxist – and his prison notes concerning the tricky quest for balance in political action and opinion.

This article is based on Mick Hume’s opening comments at the debate on optimism and pessimism at the Battle of Ideas October 2010.