It's 48 years ago this month that I had a letter published in the Times Educational Supplement. \u00a0I was a PGCE student at the time and on school placement (teaching practice), and I hoped that no one at my comprehensive school would notice. \u00a0They didn't; or if they did, they kept stumm.<\/p>\n
I wrote in response to a letter defending corporal punishment in schools. \u00a0The writer had both mis-attributed a quote and got hold of the wrong end of the stick completely \u2013 something a teacher beating a child would never do.<\/p>\n
The quote was: \"Pale Ebernezer thought it wrong to fight, but Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n It's obviously a critique of pacifism, and it's by Belloc. \u00a0I just pointed this out whilst getting in a few well chosen points about the scandal that corporal punishment still existed in schools.<\/p>\n Almost 50 years on, I'm published again in the TES \u2013 now in quite a different format. \u00a0This is an article written at the behest of Teach the Future to mark their parliamentary reception to\u00a0persuade parliamentarians that we need a Climate Emergency Education Plan, so that students can learn to lead more sustainably than the current generation has been. \u00a0You'll find it here<\/a>. \u00a0Even the somewhat clich\u00e9d image that went with it was apt as it was International Polar Bear Day<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n Unlike my letter in 1972, this article didn't survive the editors intact. \u00a0But, no matter, the major points are there and I hope will help the students' cause \u2013 as it is everyone's interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It's 48 years ago this month that I had a letter published in the Times Educational Supplement. \u00a0I was a PGCE student at the time and on school placement (teaching practice), and I hoped that no one at my comprehensive...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}