transcript of a podcast I wrote on how to decode poetry at a basic level. episode 1 - summarise.
Podcasts: The Ultimate Edutainment
What podcasts do I recommend, and what makes a good podcast to me?
A Birkbeck Story
I had to write an essay because I was taught too well not to.
Classical music: how to get into something difficult
Thank god for teens on Spotify. Their knowledge on so many topics is as lacking as mine, whether we’re talking about classic 80s hip-hop they weren't there for or Romantic classical music when they're not sure if romantic is an era or a mood. The beautiful thing about the teens, though, is that even if... Continue Reading →
The Joy in Something You Weren’t Seeking
Do you ever find yourself researching something so strange that you stop and wonder what brought you here? I find that it’s almost a daily occurrence for me: whether it’s finding a stack of books on the history of various astrologies (what’s more surprising, that I needed it or that it’s a surprisingly well-covered field?)... Continue Reading →
Studying in the age of COVID-19
This pandemic is a life-changing cultural shift, and one of the questions we ought to take from it is the purpose of education: what are people hoping to get out of their school experience?
What Does Europe Mean to Me?
Expanded from a National Geographic competition entry.
What is a good education?
1) Contact time isn’t what defines your degree as ‘good’ or ‘bad’. 2) Neither is the subject you study. 3) Neither is the institution in which you study. 4) Student loans are not sufficient for either the institution or the individual. 5) Education should only be for those who ‘deserve’ it (replace deserve with whichever word you like, they’re all there in the comments). 6) This is a crisis that is not only affecting the young and the middle-classes. 7) European degrees, or having the army pay for your degree, are not solutions. 8) We cannot institute the policy of ‘paying’ people for attainment in their degree by giving people with 1st class degrees a discount.
On Education (I)
As a school librarian, I sometimes see places where we can march forward to a better standard of universal education. I would like to suggest that we are not using the technology to its fullest effect.
Late Romantic 