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Just spotted the latest advertisement by the SES on the London Underground. I just had to take a photo of it and post it. http://reference.ses-forums.org/wp-content/uploads/SES_tubeadvert_Sep091.jpg The wording of the advertisement is: This poster can make your life happier than any other on the pla...

Question is, where does it cross the line and go horribly wrong? I guess its when faith in an ideology stops us questioning received wisdom.. but try telling kids to question the wisdom they receive from us - all hell breaks loose! I agree. The line gets crossed too when the organisation existance ...

They now cower behind litigation and other public relations techniques such as damage limitation to hide the truth. The Inquiry was one such exercise. What a clever stunt. Nothing has changed but the situation has been 'dealt' with. Welcome Gerasene Demon, I agree with you that there is little evid...

Here's the link to the distance learning bit directly. It's quite hidden and took me a while to find.

https://www.philosophyworks.org/content ... e-learning

Their intention is to run what happens in the classroom via web video conference.

Bonsai

I have no experience of Steiner schools, though I have heard of them, so I cannot offer any insight into their education system. The advice I would offer however is just to do as much research on the school you intend to send your children to. I think many of us who suffered or were let down by the ...

For my last couple of years in the School I was constantly asking questions in group: "Why?", "Who says?" "How do you know that?" etc. If you keep asking questions like that the bottom line is always some reference to authority: "Because the shankaracharya says so...

The realisation that the SoP was teaching BS came from tutoring. I was simply unable to answer my students' questions with rigour. I tried to get the answers from my tutor but he was clueless as well despite being a 28 year veteran and in the "senior" group. My experience is that you ceas...

Welcome sweetiepie and congratulations on taking the plunge into contributing on a forum. Thank you also for having the courage to post about your own time with the SES. I was a member of the SES for 22 years ( I was shocked when I worked this out in preperation to post on the Forum!) and left 5 or ...

In view of the postings on this website, I find that sickening. In fact, it's a fucking disgrace. Here here Jo-Anne. For those that wish to know where this was published it can be found at http://www.stjamesschools.co.uk/spectrum/Gallery%20Spectrum%202008.pdf I think that it is fair to say that the...

Leonardo Da Vinci MacLaren
Driven, maniacal canoodler

Excellent idea. Off to work some out

Has anyone else mentioned about how we were denied the toilet until we were forced to be incontinent? I'm well aware of one of my former classmates being repeatedly refused leave to go to the toilet and often wet himself in class. I really never understood why teachers did this and I still don't un...

An interesting review:

http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/ind ... ra_Salaman

... it hit me so hard with memories that I almost had to check it wasn't me who had written it. This is the thing that I find so amazing about this book and why it is so important that it has been written, the fact is that I'm a bloke who went to the boys school and started 4 years behind Clara yet...

However over the years I began to see how deeply troubled he was. His idea of truth was rigid and insular. He was dogmatic, controlling and deeply misogynistic. He thought nothing of interfering in the lives of others to achieve SES' goals. He thought nothing of attacking and belittling his student...