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Newsletters Writings

When the House Is Built, the Scaffolding Can Be Taken Down

Issue 25 of my Crossed Lines newsletter, announcing Homeward Bound, the first online series from a school called HOME.

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Writings

Deschooling Revisited

Writing about Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society (1971) for Issue 25 of STIR magazine.

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Newsletters Writings

It’s Time to Start a School

Issue 16 of my Crossed Lines newsletter was where we first announced the launch of a school called HOME.

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Essays Writings

A Five Hundred Year Moment?

Wherever you look, to the left or to the right, you will have a hard time finding a politician who doesn’t want to create more jobs. They may argue over the best means to do so, but they would hardly think of asking whether employment as we know it is a good thing.

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Talks

A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise

A talk on the future of education at Dalarna University, Sweden in March 2013.

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Writings

Three Travellers

“I don’t think I was given the best careers advice in school,” he says. “There was no future in making things, they told us. If you were bright, you should go to college and study something like law.”

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Conversations

Rehoming Society: A Conversation with Sajay Samuel

Talking with Ivan Illich’s friend and pupil about his concept of the vernacular.

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Talks

TEDx London: The Education Revolution

In my last year in London, I gave this talk at the TEDx event at the Roundhouse.