Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
Education & Children
Let the children play
As conflict wracks the globe, two exhibitions offer a powerful vision of our shared humanity
Inside England’s ultra-disciplined schools
As UK schools struggle with behaviour problems, a new breed boast of high grades and obedient students – but at what cost?
Book review: Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science
When Harvard University decided to combine anthropology, sociology and social psychology, they opened up a Pandora's box of problems.
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…
Blasphemy in the classroom
What does the fallout from the Batley Grammar School case say about free speech in Britain?
Two Holocaust memoirs stick close to the grubby truth
"Escape from the Ghetto" by John Carr and "Yellow Star Red Star" by Agnes Kaposi are unflinchingly unsentimental.
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…
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…