April 2008 Archives
My philosophical solution to our rotten state schools and rubbish teachers
April 25, 2008 6:16 PM
HARDLY a day passes without some damning report pointing to the desperate failure of state educashun in the UK.
And now the teachers have started going on strike for more pay (even though teachers’ pay is already the envy of most folk, as are their massively generous holidays and their gold-plated pensions).
I have no sympathy at all for the striking teachers, but my heart goes out to youngsters attending state schools these days – because as a society we have failed them so very badly indeed.
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The radiant finger of identity
April 18, 2008 7:32 PM
A poignant memory from childhood got me reflecting, in a way that seems radically counter-cultural, on just how beautiful cigarettes can be.
It happened during a visit to my mother when I told her how vividly I recall her and my dad taking turns to come to my bedroom at night when I was a small boy and writing my name large in the darkened air with the lit tip of a cigarette.
That was, for me, a brilliant experience, and one that occurred almost nightly.
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Sudden shafts of love for humanity
April 12, 2008 5:16 PM
EVERY so often – and I think this is true for almost everyone – we humans experience or see something us that sparks deep within us brilliant shafts of compassion and love.
I’m talking about those rare moments when, for instance, we talk of seeing something that’s ‘touched’ our hearts.
The best of these moments, I find, arise out of very ordinary circumstances. I experienced one recently while queuing at the check-out in a New Brighton supermarket.
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This page contains an archive of all entries posted to Steve Regan’s Last Resort in the April 2008. They are listed from oldest to newest.
March 2008 is the previous archive.May 2008 is the next archive.
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