A new year, a new school term: inevitably, it’s time to consider those new year resolutions.
I’ve made one. Having announced my decision to retire this summer, I shall resolutely remain positive. I have vowed not to utter the words: “It won’t be my problem.” I just don’t think it’s acceptable.
Even in retirement, I’m not convinced teachers can entirely divorce themselves from their lifetime’s work. Moreover, if teaching is a vocation (and it is), we can’t help but live out the belief that education is something for all of us, for the whole of society, for the nation as a whole. As active citizens, we cannot turn our backs on it and say: “Nothing to do with me.”
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