Social Justice, Education, and the Pupil Premium

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After a rare weekend of sunshine, the weather returned to normal yesterday. Can this really be fair? Does Britain deserve such continuously dreary, dismal, wet weather? A scary thought. What if it does?

Enabling Children to Discover their Element

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We need a revolution in education, and we need to turn upside down the notion that schools exist to prepare young people for the world of work, rather than schools exist to enable young people to develop all of their … Continue reading →

Finding Your Element Puts You In The Zone

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Peak Experiences and Going With The Flow. Today we’re returning to some more thoughts from Sir Ken Robinson’s book ‘The Element‘, but first we’re considering a book that was published in 1974 – The Inner Game of Tennis, written by … Continue reading →

Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

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Two months ago we wrote about Sir Ken Robinson’s latest book – The Element – How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. http://3diassociates.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/and-heres-to-you-mr-robinson/ Today we’re returning to this book, starting with a passage from page 76 that connects with our recent … Continue reading →

Never Let Your School Work Interfere With Your Education

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First of all – a request to our 3Di blog ‘followers’ to kindly click the link on our email notifications of new posts and to read the blog (or at least take a quick look at it!) on http://3diassociates.wordpress.com/ – … Continue reading →

Music, Technology and Serenity

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Combining two of our main areas of interest, today we’re considering the technology of music. Many of us are now familiar with the range of gadgets that enable us to listen to music. We also use programmes and companies such … Continue reading →

Music: Passing It On, and Feeling the Noize

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If you haven’t been watching Simon Amstel’s sublime ‘Grandma’s House’ on TV recently then we strongly suggest you try to catch up with it on the BBC iPlayer. I remember quite clearly that one of the reasons I enjoyed visiting … Continue reading →

Finding a Rhythm, Feeling the Groove

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Preamble. Following on from yesterday’s thoughts on music and the intelligences that are required to make music, we’d like to add the following clarification. There’s a direct route from the physical into the metaphysical (spiritual) intelligence, and a return route … Continue reading →

Truth Seekers, Music Makers; Freeing the Spirit and Rocking the World

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A few years back a representative of a well known London orchestra approached my school and asked whether some of his musicians might work with our children in order to help the professionals to loosen up, feel the music, and … Continue reading →