Alone
May 14, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A poem by Elizabeth Ellis
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A Teacher’s Lot Is Not a Happy One
February 1, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Inspectors come into my school for a maximum total of two days. They observe a few teachers for about twenty minutes each and then pass momentous and life changing judgements on their practice
A Modest Proposal for the Improvement of the Younger Generation
November 26, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
It is a most distressing sight to see various education ministers and other self seeking professionals falling over each other to gain credit at the expense of so many poor teachers and their most unfortunate children
Shallow Depths
February 18, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In front of me is a copy of today's Khaleej Times; its front page story is about a speech by His Highness Shaikh Mohammed who is the Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, writes Elizabeth Ellis
Teachers’ Low Morale
January 4, 2013 12:00 am Leave your thoughts For the first time in my life, if a youngster were to ask me if s/he should become a teacher, I would find myself feeling intensely uncomfortable repeating the old mantra about teaching being an honourable profession, a caring profession says Elizabeth Ellis
Our Home – A Human Unity Statement
November 2, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Elizabeth Ellis reminds us of humanity's mission statement
Condemnation partly motivated by hindsight
September 26, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The condemnation of past behaviours has become fashionable. It is partly motivated by hindsight. It is also partly motivated by sheer outrage, as any decent and humane person cannot help but be outraged by man's often barbaric treatment of other human beings, writes Elizabeth Ellis.
The Delusion of Democracy
September 17, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Elizabeth Elis reminds us that when added together, minorities form a majority and it is only through unity that power can be wrested away from a tiny elite and placed firmly in the hands of the masses