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It’s time to step back

After four years of writing this column, Alex Wood is stepping back. He leaves us with a final message of support and aspiration for our teachers

Norman Drummond, founder of the leadership development charity Columba 1400, former headteacher and Church of Scotland minister, has published a new book, Step Back (Hodder & Stoughton).

Step Back reiterates the core Columban values of awareness, focus, creativity, integrity, perseverance and service.

It is an appeal to the individual to stand back from the pounding pressures of a world characterised by relentless consumerism, shallow values, and crass egotism and to reject the negative and destructive self-perceptions which mar our capacity for action.

Columba 1400 has established its place in the Scottish educational firmament (although it works across the globe) by insisting that all educational issues require ethical answers. It has also asserted that it is impossible to separate the social and the individual, that personal integrity is crucial to challenging and changing tough realities.

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