Tag: GCSE
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Results Day: Perfection is Overrated.
In this bizarre educational environment it can become very easy to convince yourself that every mistake you make in your learning counts as well, and – what is more – counts against you. How do you respond, then, when you get something wrong? How do you react when you fall short of perfection? The answer is simple, but it’s one I wish that I had been told when I was at school…
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“I never got that letter”: writing “Curley’s wife”
That lower-case “w” in “Curley’s wife” stands for some terrible, terrible things. It would be nice to capitalise it, to give it the appearance of a name, to treat it as a title rather than as an insult. But we can’t…