Intellectuals in the Sticks
Charlotte Weatherley, Assistant Head at Knighton House School, tells us how they encourage students to find their inner intellectual through exploration and creative thinking in the Dorset countryside.
Everywhere in fiction and meta-fiction there are cities and many stories are built on the duality of the urban narrative (and if you ask Dick Whittington or Emma Bovary it is as much emancipator as tormentor to the characters who inhabit it).
Using the metaphor of the seed to represent how cities grow, each emerging with its individual character, unique energy and canon of ideas, in Magdalena Tulli?s book ?Dreams and Stones? the narrator tells us, ?when the city germinates, when it ripens and when it rots, it contains within itself all possibilities at once, and the entire plan of the world?. Within the plan, ?every boy would become a pilot and every girl a schoolteacher? (or vice-versa) but post-pandemic, aspirations for our children are changed; suddenly we distrust the ?rot? and no longer do we want an entire plan of the world, but only a safe space within it. Does it necessarily follow that the sons and daughters of the urban cognoscenti (or any regular urbanite with children to educate) wants to send them to country schools" No; too much quiet and too much dark, with anything beyond the Home Counties intellectual rough country. But as one little rural prep school who offers ?all possibilities at once?, and we are surely synonymous for all rural schools, in our co...
Source:
littlelondonmagazine
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http://www.littlelondonmagazine.co.uk/
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