EDUCATION
September 2008
Writers are hidden beings, says the winner of the 2008 PEN/Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award
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September 2008
We have grown shy of exploring our sense of unhibited wonder at the natural world
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August 2008
The author of a powerful new novel set in a comprehensive school explains why A-level results convey little about a pupil's education
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August 2008
Mastering facts, memorising rules, learning poems by heart have come to be regarded, not as enlarging a child’s world but as positively crushing his or her spirit
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