Tag: education
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Week 20: ”I think therefore I could be”: all goals start in the mind.
Ten years ago, I was teaching philosophy to 17 year olds. One group in particular had been kind of written off as low achieving, and were only in my class to fill their timetable. There were four of them (students, not classes.) And me? I have no degree in philosophy, and knew nothing about it…
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Week 5: How do you best prepare for an outdoor qualification?
Let’s face it, starting a qualification as an adult is a pretty big deal. There are many reasons for this: it costs a lot, takes a lot of time up you could be spending on other things, and there’s no guarantee at the other end you will get a return on your investment. So how…
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A Year in the Life of a Mountain Training Candidate
So here’s a new challenge, one that I have thought about doing for a long time but always hesitated to start. Until now. What would happen if I took some of the general careers advice I usually give to students and applied it to my development as a Mountain Training candidate? What sort of things…