Assemblies this term have kept touching upon the importance of humility. Today\u2019s assembly revolved around the philosopher Socrates’s assertion that the more he learnt the less he realised he knew (ie the humbler he became).\u00a0 We draw on Socrates heavily when we do Philosophy for Children sessions; on the importance of asking questions which in turn harks back to the notion that the learning is never done- instead it is constant, fulfilling and lifelong. It is a privilege and a joy to be a head teacher because you are surrounded by learning day in day out- it is the food upon which we feast. Two pupils came to see me about their maths today. I always ask them, as far as possible, to tell me what they have been learning in their own words- \u2018I have been partitioning– you grab the tens and put them up on your fingers and then see what they make- and write down the total tens. Then you grab the ones and put them on your fingers and see how many you\u2019ve got and then write that down in the ones – and you have – partitioning!\u2019 I know – it\u2019s just two children talking about their maths- but this is what I get moment to moment. It means my days are spent holed up with learning- identifying it, celebrating it. We would love our children to approach learning with wonder, with an unquenchable thirst and with humility. I threw this quote from Eckhart Tolle at a couple of children the other day to get them thinking, \u2018How can a single human cell measuring 1\/1000th of an inch across contain instructions within its DNA that would fill 1000 books of 600 pages each? The more we learn about the workings of the body, the more we realise just how vast is the intelligence at work within it and how little we know.\u2019 Here is a quote I shared in today\u2019s assembly from Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, \u2018We run this company on questions, not answers.\u2019 I also shared a quote from a child at this school: \u2018I would say that I am curious. The deeper I go, the more questions I have.\u2019 That sounds remarkably like Socrates to me.<\/p>\n
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