Maximising Student Potential
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The Arrogance of Certainty: Why Epistemological Modesty is Education’s Lost Virtue
In the current educational discourse, modesty is a forgotten virtue. We are inundated with calls for innovation, rigour, and evidence-based practice, yet we rarely hear a plea for the one thing that should underpin them all: a healthy sense of our own limitations. By epistemological modesty, I mean the unfashionable idea that we should not…
You Are Misusing Cognitive Load Theory
Education loves its theories. We love them with a kind of earnest devotion that would be charming if it were not so historically destructive. A theory emerges in the literature, carefully tested in small, controlled studies involving volunteers who sit quietly, complete tidy tasks and never once throw a pencil across the room. Then, almost…
Questions That Will Define 2026
There’s a predictable rhythm to education. Every few years we rediscover an idea we abandoned a decade earlier and insist it’s revolutionary. The only constant is the pendulum swing: one decade it’s all soft lighting, beanbags, and “let the children lead”; the next it’s rigid scripts, highly structured lessons, and the kind of certainty usually…
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