by chriscurnow | Mar 30, 2010 | Education, Entrepreneurship, Human Relationships, Leadership, Personal Effectiveness, Purpose, What constiitutes success
I came across this piece by Marcia Devlin this morning.The first part of her post reminded me of my Grade 6 teacher. (A Mr Horn, if I remember correctly.) Now I liked Mr Horn very much. I thought he was an engaging teacher who always made us think. But I do remember...
by chriscurnow | Mar 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
If you read this blog regularly you will know that my heart weeps for education. At a time in which the world faces its greatest ever challenges, we are returning to models of education that were essentially developed 200 years ago. In Australia, we have the...
by chriscurnow | Jan 8, 2010 | Character of the Day
Do a google search on Schumann and you will most likely find references to Robert Schumann, the 19th century composer. You won’t immediately find that his wife Clara Schumann, was also a noted composer and virtuoso pianist.As an interesting aside there was a...
by chriscurnow | Jan 6, 2010 | Character of the Day
Marie Curie’s name is intimately associated with the discovery of ‘radioactivity.’ This is not accurate as that discovery belongs to Henri Becquerel. To me precise she isolated the active radioactive source within pitchblende. Starting with...
by chriscurnow | Jan 5, 2010 | Character of the Day
Frank Tate was Victoria’s first Director of Education. Reading his biography is an amazing experience. Here was someone who was passionate about education and an educational reformer. He addressed issues we think of as modern. Tate was not content to be a...