With articles like this, we should look to the philosopher George Costanza who once said "If you believe, it must be true" - Violence starts at home we should always be reminded that women are twice as likely to assault children as men! So what did ever happen to the democrats? Perhaps they went on maternity leave and never came back! So how do we break the societal cycles?

— Phil on Schools Can Help Prevent Gendered Violence: Natasha Stott Despoja

All this sounds very good but the sad fact is that many university education faculties do more harm than good. I would go so far as to say that the greatest curse on education in this country is the university eduction of preservice teachers. They fill their heads with sweet lovely theories and the poor souls come out of these courses with an almost missionary zeal to transform education and rescue it from the old style teachers who are torturing our kids. These neophyte teachers work like trojans and fall flat on their faces. Their is nothing us old ones can do to help them until they become completely disillusioned. The sad fact is we loose too many of the young ones early in their careers. We need the new blood and these foolish courses are damaging. I asked one university rep about classroom management and she straight out said that they do not teach it. Your survival as a teacher depends on your ability o mange a class and they do not teach it!! What do they teach? Seriously, we would be better off without it. Common sense is more likely to produce good results than this ideological clap trap!

— Sue Mc on Teachers Need Degrees, Intelligence And Energy Are Not Enough

Those of us that work in the education sector, we are facing some considerable change. The practices, policies, structures developed for and by governments and other agencies over the centuries and decades, that were once extremely successful, powerful and developed strong dogmatic or doctrinal beliefs about teaching and learning will be questioned deeply as new technologies are used and integrated into the teaching and learning processes. Leadership at all levels in the education sector particularly in the compulsory education sector, we need to think deeply about this as well as navigating the stresses and administration work of schools. I thinks the years ahead will be amazing and at the same time difficult as we struggle to find purpose and meaning in the roles we may hold.

— Paul Donnelly on Preparing For The Ai Education Revolution: This Is No Time For Complacency