Bringing Revolution to Private Tuition

There is an awful lot of advanced maths in the new maths GCSE.
Just the right amount for anyone going on to study A Level maths.
Far too much for anyone needing to learn the problem solving sort skills that a plumber would beed.

Anyone sickened by Donald Trump should follow my example.
I have banned Donald Trump from my house and told everyone that if he knocks on the door, don’t let him in.

Everyone can read books.
But some people just don’t care.

I think the US election is the first time a politician has ever openly lied himself into power. The manner of his election holds a lesson for all of us:
The truth is what you choose to believe.

Why are units so confusing?
The standard unit of mass is the kilogram, not the gram, but the standard unit of length is the metre, not the centimetre.
This is why people often don’t know when to times or divide by 100 or 1,000 to change to the right units.

We can only make probability a subject in maths by sterilising it and confining it to situations as predictable as getting heads or tails when flipping a coin.
In 2016 three things happened, a year previously the probability of which was pretty close to zero.
Leicester City won the Premier League
Britain voted to exit the EU
Donald Trump was elected US President
Despite these three things having probability close to zero, they all happened.
The moral? Think of any incredible disastrous thing which might possibly happen:
An alien invasion
An asteroid strike
Nuclear war
Prepare for them.

I will never let myself get into a position where I can’t do anything to save myself.

If people agree on all the facts about the holocaust, it would never make the news, and people would forget about it – most people probably do not care anyway.
We need holocaust denyers so we can get angry about the holocaust, and care enough about it prevent a reoccurrence. Every history classroom should have one.

The person you are is a result of trying to remeber what you were when you were 10.

I am all for widening access to University, but it doesn’t make sense to me to widen access by letting students in who haven’t got high enough grades, if they come from a lower class background.
Students who haven’t got the grades are frankly, not good enough. They can’t be bothered to study, and are doomed to fail at a good university like Bristol.
Maybe though, Bristol is thinking of providing a class of dumbed down degrees for these students, in the same way as Prince Charles was provided with a dumbed down degree from Cambridge, when he failed to get the grades to get into Cambridge on merit.