At the end of the 1940’s my father, manager of a Swiss company, arrived in the country. He threw me out of the home for being a ‘stone thrower’ at a school where leftist teachers were turning everyone into Marxists. It’s an ideology that’s still in vogue today. Armando […]
In Focus
In Focus
The bullying bug
I distinctly remember walking down the road from the railway station on the way home from school, the spit dripping down the back of my coat as the other boys spat huge gobs at my retreating figure. Steve Latham This was merely one episode in the bullying that […]
Care matters
There is a difference between the expressions ‘I don’t mind’ and ‘I don’t care’. The first one might have to do with indifference as acceptance and respect (I do not mind what my neighbour prefers to eat); the second one refers to indifference as lack of engagement (I do not […]
Modern trafficking and African-Caribbean slavery: A false comparison?
One of the greatest myths is that modern trafficking can be directly compared with African-Caribbean chattel slavery. There are a number of fallacies in this argument. Nigel Pocock Could it be, as is suggested by Professor Geoff Palmer, that local communities can talk about modern trafficking, because it […]
Self-determination and the practice of freedom
I started last term by asking my students to write what their purposes in life are (a question that my father has asked to several generations of teachers). Mabel Encinas Many of my students, future child psychologists and current teachers, answered that they want “to make a difference”. […]














