Matthew Hunter
The Blob Has Run Schools For Decades. Not Any More
It seeped into every classroom and subsumed any attempt to destroy it. But the education establishment has met its match in Michael Gove
At Last: Gove Goes For the Culture of Excuses
Our most ambitious state schools are successfully challenging the suffocating idea that social class determines educational success
History Lessons for the 21st-Century Classroom
A generation of child-centred, progressive teachers will have to retire or be retrained if the past is to come alive again in schools
The Chaos Wrought By Progressive Education
A teacher reveals how 50 years of creeping moral relativism have left him helpless to turn his pupils into decent members of society
Child-Centered Learning Has Let My Pupils Down
The progressive orthodoxy in British education has left one in five school-leavers functionally illiterate. That ethos needs to change
Chaotic Legacy of the Classroom Radicals
Every day I grapple with unruly pupils who have no respect for teachers because discipline is treated as a dirty word in our schools
Why Remoaners should back Boris
“Boris, ironically, now offers Remoaners the best chance of a soft Brexit, or at least a sensible one. And to those who want a second referendum—’the people’s vote’—there may even be a chance of that too.”
On the road
“In the summer of 1980, in the grip of some Kerouac-ish fantasy, I opted to hitch-hike from Laredo to New York”
Discovering the Great War of China
A third of a million Chinese labourers helped the Allies defeat the Kaiser, but their huge unsung contribution ended in betrayal