Following the success of last year’s initiative customers at Blackwell’s book shop on South Bridge can once again support Edinburgh’s most vulnerable children through an exciting initiative, The Children’s Book Tree.
Blackwell’s are working with City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh Women’s Aid and Edinburgh Young Carers to help make Christmas a little better for disadvantaged local [...]
Children’s Book Tree
December 4, 2009
Having a Choice
November 19, 2009
Here is a great article by Kathy Lette on the education of women worldwide. She supports the charity Plan UK, which works
to help girls overcome the incredible odds that keep them locked in the cycle of poverty… Altogether, more than 43 million [girls] are currently out of school. Girls are at the back of the queue when [...]
A good teacher is like a bolt of electricity (Ed Balls)
October 30, 2009
How wonderful to read that the award for the outstanding new teacher has gone to a young man who was told he’d never become a teacher because of his dyslexia. In fact his parents were informed by his primary head that there was ‘a debate as to whether dyslexia really exists’.
The Guardian reports [...]
The Meaning of Life!!
June 5, 2008
Today the most powerful and also the most difficult task in raising a child is helping him to find meaning in life. .. To find deeper meaning, one must become able to transcend the narrow confines of a self-centred existence and believe that one will make a significant contribution to life … In order not [...]
