The Soul of Education
We have built a system that measures everything a child can do and almost nothing of who they are becoming. We test knowledge and neglect character. We track progress and lose sight of purpose. Then we wonder why so many young people reach adulthood capable but quietly lost. The Soul of Education brings conversations about what we left out.
Each episode, Dr James Biddulph MBE, CEO of Avanti Schools Trust, sits down with educators, scientists, artists and thinkers who are asking the harder question: not how do we raise attainment, but how do we raise well-rounded human beings.
This is not nostalgia, and it is not criticism from the sidelines. It is a serious attempt to put the inner life back at the centre of schooling, grounded in the work of running real schools.
The Soul of Education
Latest Episodes
Learning Without Limits | Dame Alison Peacock on The Soul of Education Podcast
What happens when we stop labelling children by ability and start trusting in their potential?In this episode of The Soul of Education, James Biddulph, CEO of Avanti Schools Trust, is joined by Professor Dame Alison Peacock, Chief Execu...
Learning from the Living World | Richard Dunne on The Soul of Education Podcast
Ask a child to draw nature and most will draw something they are standing outside of.Richard Dunne left headship to found The Harmony Project, convinced that the way we structure learning teaches children a quiet falsehood: that they are...
Where has all the Joy gone in Education? | Nitesh Gor OBE on The Soul of Education Podcast
Somewhere between Reception and Sixth Form, the joy goes missing.James Biddulph and Nitesh Gor both describe waking up to the same question: where has all the joy gone? In this opening episode they trace that question through the...