Cockburn and Poole have great pleasure in bringing you this weeks wrap.

But first a word from Errol: “…contradiction has a place in human nature, in social values, just as it has in mathematics.  Contradiction is neither true nor false.  It (just) is.”  From My Wicked Wicked Ways, by Errol Flynn 1959.

NAPLAN dominated our posts early in the week and our hugely successful competition to search out the origin of the Acronym “NAPLAN” brought forth an international response. The winner was our ever popular PM with this entry: Negating Academic Principles Lowering All Norms.  A brilliant winner I’m sure you will all agree.  Thanks PM.  Oh, you can see the entries here, and view other Education posts here, and here.

Thursday brought  this post, a poem on “Wisdom”,  plus a link to the most challenging TED talk on the way education stymies creativity

The Musical Dispatch from the Front  is dedicated to Saraswathi the Hindu goddess of learning, music and wisdom..

Poetry Sunday brought the wonderful poem of Sherman Alexie, “Go, Ghost, Go”.  Read about Sherman, who grew up on Spokane Indian Reservation in the US,  here

Monday starts our week on Nuclear Families, with this wonderful quote “A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family.  It’s a terribly vulnerable survival unit.” (From “A Man Without a Country” Kurt Vonnegut 2005)  See it here and here

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Happy reading from Q Cockburn and C Poole.