Education & Children

The art of certainty

We need to teach children faith first before they can learn to doubt, says Roger Scruton, in his response to Danny Postel

Last issue’s article about how to raise children as humanists received hundreds of responses. Here its author, Danny Postel, chooses his favourites

Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference

Paul Sims visits a zoo with a difference

What can humanist parents use in the battle against religious indoctrination? Danny Postel investigates

When it comes to threats to our freedoms we all need to pay attention

Fifty years after CP Snow’s celebrated lecture the ‘two cultures’ are further apart than ever, finds Eliane Glaser

This acclaimed story of a year in a Paris classroom captures school life brilliantly, says Fred Rowson

The rise of pushy helicopter parents is holding children back, says Carl Honoré

Rabbi Jonathan Romain introduces a new front in the fight against faith schools