Some Thoughts and Memories

One person I recall in Slough was Phyllis Wallbank. She was a charming elderly lady and went around in her motorised buggy. We had a few chats now and again. However, it was only after her passing that I  discovered she had played an important role in education. The piece below reveals "all" so to speak! Phyllis Wallbank From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search St Bartholomew the Great  Priory Church's  coat of arms Phyllis Wallbank   MBE  (1 September 1918 – 9 April 2020) was a British  educationalist  who, in 1948, founded the first all-age  Montessori school  in  Great Britain  and the  Gatehouse Learning Centre , which took its name from the  gatehouse  of the  Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great  in  London . Contents 1 Life 2 Educational activities 3 Charitable and social activities 4 Honours 5 Bibliography 6 References 7 External links Life [ edit ] Wallbank began as a  Froebel -trained  teacher . Working in juvenile courts as a

Bill Readings was a brilliant young academic philosopher with a shining future. I met him back in 1994..I found him difficult though to tune into as my earlier post revealed in The "Great" and the "Good"...the relevant extract of which is found reproduced here below .... * One person who visited  the vicar's offspring was Bill Readings who I met only once. He was an Oxford graduate, and was an expert on Communism, and Marx. When I met him I found him to be "too brainy" and "too intense" for my liking. He went to America to teach for a while, but tragically died young (34) in a airplane crash in October 1994. I remember seeing a pic of him in a well-known national  newspaper with his mortarboard, and gown on graduation day in Oxford. Sad. It is no longer clear what role the University plays in society. The structure of the contemporary University is changing rapidly, and we have yet to understand what precisely these changes will mean. Is a ne

  One evening I was lying on my bed and I heard an announcer on  BBC Radio 4 mention the name Andrew Weatherall. It was in connection with a radio programme called Last Word dealing with recent obits of famous people. The name instantly rang a bell in my head as it was so familiar.....and then I recalled Weatherall from the dim and distant past of the early 1970s. I knew him as a child and went to the same school in Windsor as him. We had a number of chats. I even had dinner with him in Old Windsor where I met his parents...and remember seeing a parrot in a cage too. But unfortunately I cannot recall anything much more about him...except that the last time I saw him he said that he was planning a revolution in music...and hey, presto he seem to have done something like that in later life...yet, I am not qualified to say how important and revolutionary his contribution is to modern music.  Andrew Weatherall / Guardian Newspaper with examples of his "best" work Google search li