What is Success?
Schools exist to hold mirrors up to children, inviting them to consider who they are and what they might become. To paraphrase W.B. Yeats, teachers should be fostering self-worth and igniting fires, not filling empty heads. The greatest gifts we can share with children are knowledge, good manners, durable study skills and the courage and confidence to think for themselves. Even in a system that does its best to encourage a ‘one size fits all’ approach, every child’s unique identity will inevitably become ever more distinct with the emergence of each learning discovery...