Robservations’s Substack

Thomas Gradgrind: Education's Misunderstood Hero.

Charles Dickens’ Hard Times is a garish Victorian cartoon, a simplistic fable masquerading as literature, bloated with moralising tripe and exaggerated…

Mar 4 • 

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January 2025

Britain's Forgotten General:

The Leadership Genius of William Slim

Jan 12 • 

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Systems Over Goals

Implementing James Clear's Approach in Secondary Education

Jan 11 • 

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December 2024

The Hollow Towers:

Education's Lost Purpose

Dec 21, 2024 • 

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Leadership. Leadership. Always leadership.

A vignette

Dec 16, 2024 • 

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Sherlock Holmes and the Dark Art of Critical Thinking

Knowledge lurks in the shadows of reason.

Dec 12, 2024 • 

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EDUCATION-2034: The Bureaucratic Singularity

A story

Dec 8, 2024 • 

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The Architecture of Understanding:

A Philosophy of Education

Dec 7, 2024 • 

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March 2024

Leadership lessons 3: Building the team to implement the vision:

'Character over Cover Drive'

Mar 18, 2024 • 

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Leadership Lessons 2: The Vision Thing

Always start with the end in mind.

Mar 11, 2024 • 

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February 2024

Leadership lessons 1: Confidence in decision making (aka don't be a cat on a fence).

A lesson in leadership from Captain Picard.

Feb 12, 2024 • 

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The Great Educational Delusion:

It is not technological progress students face, it is technological stagnation.

Feb 5, 2024 • 

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