English, poets and the Imagination

This blog is open to anyone interested in literary culture. We live in a results-centred, utilitarian world, and unfortunately our educational systems are increasingly occupied with job-training and ‘skills’. Although exam results and jobs are essential, I believe strongly that teaching must be informed by the transmission of a love for the beauty and wisdom in our artistic creations. Without this, education withers and dies. 'You have been to school/ But kept your wisdom' (Kathleen Raine)

Saturday, 24 October 2020

HS2 Rail link and a 250 year old pear tree

What would Gerard Manley Hopkins feel about this?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/17/tree-of-the-week-the-beloved-250-year-old-wild-pear-being-cut-down-for-hs2

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/20/former-tree-of-the-year-felled-in-warwickshire-to-make-way-for-hs2

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I was born and brought up in Surrey, just south of London, and have studied and worked in universities in Kent, Reading, Chambéry and Lyon, France. I am currently working at the Lycée du Parc in Lyon, where I teach in post-secondary 'classes préparatoires'. I am a member of and contributor to the Temenos Academy, an educational charity based in London offering education in philosophy and the arts, co-founded by the English poetess Kathleen Raine.
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