September 2017
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In My View By REVD TIM ELBOURNE Diocesan Director of Education I LISTENED recently in the car to an old comedy radio programme, first broadcast 25 years ago, called ‘People should start school at 35’. It consisted mainly of anecdotes about how awful the
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presenter’s experiences of
to be taught more
school with childhood. But
school as a child had been in
interestingly.
should we? Our diocesan programme,
the 1970s – a bit like that of
Perhaps there was some
Billy Casper in the film Kes.
prescience in this: in June this
School for Disciples, suggests
year, the Government published
every church in Chelmsford
suggested were that by the time
a controversial league table of
Diocese should be a school for
we are 35 we would actually
university teaching quality – the
disciples.
know what we wanted to learn
Teaching Excellence Framework
and that if we were all mature
– awarding each university a
Jesus is the lifetime challenge. St
adults by the time we went to
gold, silver and bronze ranking.
Benedict, the founding father
The main positive reasons
school, the lessons would have
Of course we associate
Learning to be a disciple of
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