My Nana, May Craig is her name – the mother of my mother – had her 100th Birthday last week. Humans are learning miracles. Our ability to learn, how we learn and who/what we learn from is pure magic. Everyone is a teacher. Everyone is a learner. Every experience...
My Grade 12 English teacher, Mr Breuer, lit a fire in my soul for Literature. I always liked reading – maybe it had something to do with my parents’ idea that going on holiday for them meant to go to the beach and read all day for two weeks. But it wasn’t until I was...
We all know the history of our honest, yet feeble, attempts to measure intelligence. With the Intelligence Quotient somehow our intelligence was given a number. Then came Multiple Intelligences, Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence – there was more (I’m just...
I’m not going to enter the Climate Change debate. I understand cause and effect. I know how humans impact the natural world. I understand the concept of geological time. I know that everything is always changing – including the climate. I can see how this planet is a...
I am not sure what to make of the apparent scramble of students around the world who are trying to organise their own SAT exams (or equivalent) since schools can not conduct the usual exams, and the majority of colleges and universities are saying they don’t need...
Music is such a powerful human construct. It amazes me how we have created such an awesome medium to communicate, to celebrate, to share, to elicit emotions, to motivate. As a species, our ability to create music must be near the top of the list of greatest...
