My Experiences of Learners and Learning

Introduction
Rushen Infants, Rushen Junior and Castle Rushen. Three very small state run schools in the same village tucked away in a secluded part of the Isle of Man. Nothing memorable, nothing expensive, no competition from any other local schools and no new or innovative styles of teaching the otherwise mundane curriculum.
The teachers had themselves been schooled quite possibly in the very same building during the 1940's and 1950's. They now were seeking to impart their discipline to children from a different generation, a different decade, with totally different views and values.…