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  • Teaching when to trust

    As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge

  • Let the children play

    As conflict wracks the globe, two exhibitions - "The Family of Man" and "Children's Games" - offer a powerful vision of our shared humanity

  • Inside England's ultra-disciplined schools

    Schools like Michaela Community boast of high grades and obedient students – but at what cost?

  • Book review: Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science

    The birth, life and death of the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University is a cautionary tale of failure, scandal and intellectual breakthrough.

  • Losing our humanities

    Rishi Sunak's comments on "low value" degrees come off the back of a round of cuts to arts and the humanities. What do we lose when these subjects become the preserve of the rich?

  • Blasphemy in the classroom

    What does the dismissal of a teacher for using a Muhammad cartoon in class say about the state of Britain?

  • Two Holocaust memoirs stick close to the grubby truth

    Reviews of two new Holocaust memoirs, "Escape from the Ghetto" by John Carr and "Yellow Star Red Star" by Agnes Kaposi.

  • Book review: Infinitely Full of Hope

    On becoming a dad, philosopher Tom Whyman was confronted with the question: "is it cruel to bring new life into an awful world?"

  • Cubs of the Caliphate

    Little attention has been paid to the boys groomed by ISIS to become the next jihadis. But a detention centre in the democratic commune of Rojava offers a model for rehabilitation.

  • Mother and baby homes: when sorry isn't enough

    Church leaders in Ireland have become highly skilled at apologising for the past abuses of their institutions, but meaningful redress must be provided to survivors of the horrific system of mother and baby homes.