Headmaster of a leading London prep school warns that too much private tutoring is “devouring children’s time” and denying them a childhood worthy of the name.
Quotes
Slow learners?
A welcome corrective to the conventional wisdom that the only path to success is early academic superstardom.
Slow Art day
Today is Slow Art Day. Why not visit a gallery with a good collection and take the time to look, think and feel…
Facebook ‘friends’
You could say the same about followers on Twitter…
Slowvember
Lovely piece by a journalist who spent a month putting the Slow philosophy into practice at work and with his family.
Slow Fixing politics
Smart piece on the folly of quick fixes in Pakistani politics with a reference to the wisdom of THE SLOW FIX .
In Praise of the slow read
In a world of information overload, where the temptation is to skim every text that crosses our paths, some interesting food for thought on merits of reading slowly and thoughtfully.
Take it from Einstein
You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew. Albert Einstein in THE SLOW FIX
the folly of Short cuts
In this age, which believes there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. Henry Miller quoted in THE SLOW FIX.
The Year of living Ted
A woman spent a year putting a range of TED talks into practice. Including my own talk on the benefits of slowness. Here’s what happened next.