How Sez Sees It

Apart from the smattering of French that would help me to order in a restaurant which, let's face it, is really all I would want to be able to do on a holiday to France, I  can remember smatterings of my education that are really quite interesting. Something I learned from my psychology lessons at college is about prayer. This will not be in depth or tell you anything specifically with links sources, hence the title of this blog. However, you can look up the studies if you can really be bothered. This week it was reported that Professor Richard Dawkins, the scientist and most famous of the atheists, suffered a minor stroke which forced him to cancel his tour.  The Church of England sent a tweet about this saying they were going to send prayers for him. Now, either they are trying to be compassionate or this is one of the biggest pieces of internet trolling in years. It got me thinking about my past experiences in education and I realised that there had been a study once ...

At the beginning of the year I made two resolutions. The first was that I would buy a house. That I did and I am living in it quite happily now. The other was that I would start learning Japanese. That I have also done. I will admit I am very much at the beginning of the process. I am using a lot of beginner online courses that are free at the moment but they are great for learning the very basics. I am really enjoying it but I have so much more work to do. In the vlog below I talk about my experiences and how I need to get my finger out and learn more.

Today the hate group (yes I call them that freely) Britain First posted this letter template on Facebook saying that parents should use it to get their children out of Religious Education lessons that would encourage children to join Islam or some such nonsense. I do not post this here to encourage or condone their words. In fact, my response is below. I fear that my liberal and well reasoned argument will be deleted from their page and so I post it below for you to read. I add that people are free to make up their own minds about everything and if your view is different from mine then you are entitled to it. I just hope that you will respect my view. 'Anyone who uses this is never going to solve anything. When I was at school Religious Education was only in Primary School and dealt mostly with Christianity as taught by the local Methodist and Holy Trinity churches. When I went to secondary school we had Religious Studies, which I took to GCSE level (as it was an option).  Th...