ABOUT ME
I have been involved in education all my life, and have always felt that to be a privilege. I was fortunate in having parents who loved learning- after my father's death a colleague related how my father had described education as a dance, and not a march. I quite agree with this terpsichorean conception!
In English we differentiate between teaching and learning, but I think they're the same thing. In the dialect of the North of England, where I grew up, it's common to say that you'll learn somebody something- in teaching we learn, surely...
I've spent my life teaching English, but my interests go well beyond literature, into my own writing, music, art and architecture, history, linguistics and- yes, into politics...
So I regard any of these areas as fair game for this blog...