Comments on: nothing compares

By: isedelim

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By: Wm Villarreal

Wm Villarreal — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:06:13 +0000

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By: knackeredhack

knackeredhack — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:11:33 +0000

Ken, I'll try and do better. It's a lack of discipline, don't you see?

Tim

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:54:10 +0000

Sinead O'Conner's look is a contradiction to her voice which is so beautifully feminine….she can sing a times article and make it sound good. Natural talent is social mobility in all ages, which can be screwed up; in music as well as other things. Nothing compares to being able to do a thing well, and learning a musical instrument teaches the unfathomably valuable skill of discipline. Why spend money on music indeed. There is way too much time between your emails Tim.

By: Richard Feynman, Confusion and Curiosity » knackeredhack

Richard Feynman, Confusion and Curiosity » knackeredhack — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:08:07 +0000

[...] in the comments of an earlier music post I dug up a seminal BBC documentary about Richard Feynman. I must have seen it when it first came [...]

By: knackeredhack

knackeredhack — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:57:08 +0000

Was it the one about Tannu Tuva? Saw it years ago and it seems to be here:- The Last Journey of a Genius

By: Raimundo Díaz

Raimundo Díaz — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:50:02 +0000

“A recent controversial report from the University of Buckingham found that UK schools specialising in music produce better physics results than those specialising in science”

Reminds me of a documentary on Richard Feynman where he plays conga (or) djembe drums:-)

By: knackeredhack

knackeredhack — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:25:16 +0000

jayprich

There was a time when you could buy the DVDs, for educational purposes, direct from Howard, but I can’t now find the link. I’ll check with his office to see if that is still possible.

I much prefer your idea of localized team-based peer-review. In my experience of that, you do get improved performance management, if it is done well.

You’d also hope that best practice these days could spread wiki-style from such a cellular structure of performance. The combination of mistaken theory, targets and check-box management, as you say, has manifestly failed. Perhaps also it has slowed the spread of discussion of Tommy MacKay’s success in West Dunbartonshire, which takes the whole community approach you’re alluding to.

Tim

By: jayprich

jayprich — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:44:59 +0000

It is a shame Howard Goodall’s CH4 “How Music Works” is not available on DVD, its a great cross genre introduction. Agreed he deserves David Attenborough’s ubiquity and may well be skilled and inspirational enough to lead a big budget …

… however, the government don’t govern, democracy never gave that sort of absolute mandate; voters are realising centralisation and targets in the Major and Blair years were a big mistake. Despite that, state education remains mostly devolved to local authorities and the DCSF budget is largely consumed by teachers and administrative salaries rather than trendy initiatives.

I hope Sing-up _can_ inspire and motivate many children, however politically it seems to me, like the “dance yourself fit” initiative, based on hope it will appeal to the Strictly/X-Factor gene we seem to have.

If I were appointed as a benign dictator of schools in the way you suggest Goodall should be; for the mid-ranking areas I’d focus on staff/pupil ratios and make staff accountable through team peer review led by the head not by exam results. For communities that seem to struggle, there is usually an underlying social problem that cannot be fixed in the schools alone … maybe here the DCSF makes some sense.