This week, a message from HM Queen asking for advice in finding suitable words of wisdom to include in her Christmas Broadcast… (Hear it on our YouTube Channel which has lots of other handy videos).  I’ve been wanting to do something about wise sayings/precepts since reading “Wonder” for the Book Club over at www.p4he.org One of the teachers in […]
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This week, a retelling of a classic double-dilemma which online classes have been finding engaging. A young man in occupied France in 1940 has to decide whether to flee to England to join the fight, or stay with his already-bereaved mother. He also has to decide how he should decide… The young man’s thoughts had
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Is Shame a Shame? This week, a session on shame developed for our online classes at www.p4he.org . It starts with the story of workers at a children’s home trying to introduce teenagers to the concept of shame by themselves acting ridiculously on public transport, allowing the youngsters to see in adults the norm-breaking behaviour they couldn’t see in themselves.  Shame is one of those philosophically interesting “good
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