Hogwarts School of Technology

Very interesting discussion over breakfast at five-thirty this morning.  It all started with the topic of my younger son’s new computer. Rishi is the sort who has brilliant ideas for poems and stories and is always writing. He used to fill uncountable notebooks and, ever since he got a computer, has folder upon folder of [...]

In celebration of uncertainty

Teachers’ Day is coming up, and usually I post as a teacher who respects the contributions of her fellow teachers, as well as the efforts of the learners who make it all worthwhile. That respect has not changed. I still applaud my colleagues who juggle their multiple roles as caring professionals, reluctant moral policemen, frontline [...]

Dulce et decorum

A young valedictorian popped the ‘f’ word into her convocation speech at the Nanyang Technological University.  Trinetta Chong delivered an enthusiastic and exuberant speech to her cheering classmates, their parents, teachers and other guests at what is meant to be a solemn occasion. Opinion has been predictably divided, with some supporting the ecstatic punchline “We [...]