Friday 4 March 2011

Free Schools?

Thanks Marcus. Sorry, can't remember you surname, only your face, just about. Buzzing after hearing your message. You're now about the third person who has spent three paragraphs praising my novel "Alice in Welfareland". Given that Alice, like Luther, is a reformer in my book; given again that the equivalent of the boss of Ofsted is characterised as Humpty Dumpty and yet again given that my Alice like thousands of current schoolchildren has become a refusenik. It's when she truants that she meets the Fat Educator on his wall, too fat to see the writing on the wall below his bulge. He takes a fancy to Alice but not to tract. Again, like Luther, she's banging on about the need to chage oppressive systems, mainly of course prescriptive education limiting love of learning and love of making choices and watching their consequences.

As a sequel to "Alice" I have now written "FREE SCHOOLS ??? - THAT'S THE SPIRIT". Thinking of one of my many playshops, the one entitled "ASTRAL ALICE, THE FIRST INDIGO CHILD?" This approach, inspired by Lewis Carroll and his love of fun and fantasy in "lessens" has been amplified and updated by me, as in the novel. Anyone out there interested in a Lewis Carroll type approach to education in or out of schools, colleges, universities and hopefully not free schools, please let's share more fun through creativity in a collegiate way that won't exclude anyone for any reason. If love is inclusive, why should we?



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