Ruby

Head of Religious Studies / Philosophy, Religion, Ethics & MA Grad. / Interested in Jungian psychology

[Natasha Porter OBE @NPorter_]

Back in the day there was a floor standard: 30% passing 5 GCSEs. My school was always below it. We struggled to believe that 30% of our kids could pass 5 GCSEs.
Just down the road a new school opened called Mossbourne. It had even higher FSM than us. 84% of their kids passed.

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

Can someone explain to me the awful things Keir Starmer has done since his landslide election that has led to him having to resign?

[Sabahat Zakariya @sabizak]

It’s not an aarti ritual. They’re bringing in the mehndi that is brought in with diyas. Maayoon, mehndi, dholak, ghori charhna, ubtan/haldi/mehndi lagaana, vail dena, and a lot else are all part of our syncretic culture.
60% of Pakistan is Punjabi. These are Punjabi traditions. There’s zero ‘identity crisis’ around them for most people.

[Sara @piousdeenn]

The Arabic word for "jinn" and the Arabic word for "baby" come from the same root.
So does "paradise." So does "madness." So does "shield." So does "heart."

Three letters. ج - ن - ن
One meaning: hidden.
Let me show you how deep this goes.

[maddie rune🪰 @themaddierune]

Literature is humanity’s longest conversation with itself about what it means to be alive. It has been going on for thousands of years. You are not late, you are not unqualified, you are not too much or too little or too broken. Pull up a chair. This conversation was always about you.

[Jake Lundahl @LundahlHorses]

Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work.

In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.

He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them.

Absolute legend.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The sun you see right now exploded 7 minutes ago and you'd have no way of knowing. You'd still feel its warmth. Still see it in the sky. Still orbit it. For 8 minutes and 20 seconds, you'd live in a universe that no longer has a sun and have absolutely no way to detect the difference.

This is because gravity also travels at the speed of light. If the sun vanished, Earth would continue orbiting the empty space where it used to be for the same 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Einstein proved this. The gravitational wave carrying the information "the sun is gone" propagates at exactly c. Light, gravity, and information all share the same speed limit.

Now scale the paradox in this post. 90 light-years is nothing. The Andromeda galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away. Every photograph of it is a 2.5 million year old snapshot. The entire galaxy could have collided with something catastrophic 2 million years ago. We'll find out 500,000 years from now.

The James Webb Space Telescope routinely photographs galaxies from 13.4 billion years ago. Those galaxies no longer exist in any form we'd recognize. The stars burned out. The civilizations, if any, rose and fell billions of years before Earth formed. Webb is photographing ghosts.

The deepest implication: "right now" is a local phenomenon. It exists only in the space you can physically touch. Beyond that, everything you see, measure, or interact with is a time-delayed recording. The further you look, the older the recording gets. There is no method, even in principle, to know the current state of anything beyond your immediate surroundings.

The entire observable universe is a 13.8 billion year old museum where every exhibit is labeled with a different date and nothing is current.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

I went to the biggest human gathering in history

This festival only happens once every century, and I got to see it with my own eyes!

Welcome to Mahakumbh Mela.

Thanks to @AdaniOnline for making it happen.
#SevaHiSaadhnaHai

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Nietzsche can hype you up

[Pritesh Raichura @Mr_Raichura]

Direct instruction is joyful & leads pupils to success. Here is a *clip* where I use high frequency & high participation questioning in 3 phases:
1. Check for listening
2. Rehearsal
3. Check for understanding
Established routines: all hands up, turn & talk, SLANT & ruler reading

[Ian White @ianwhite21]

The idea that 'disadvantaged' students aren't capable of enjoying a rigorous curriculum without misbehaving is so offensive.

Everything in my career leads back to the same problem, everywhere: low expectations of poor kids.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I'm so serious, if you stop using your creativity, imagination and thinking abilities you will LOSE them. Millions of people willingly giving up their intellects, the very thing that makes them human, is a nightmare straight out of our darkest science-fictions.

[Jash Dholani | link in bio has my books! @oldbooksguy]

Nietzsche asking the hard questions

[Scott Raines @scotthraines]

Do not be sad when you find out your original idea was perfectly articulated some thousand years before you were born; rejoice that your mind and heart and soul have connected to the same fount of knowledge and beauty as did the greats before you.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

-History teaches us to interrogate sources
-Maths teaches us to think procedurally and logically
-English leads us into examining narrator and character motives and perspective
-Religious studies teaches us that faith claims and truth claims are often divergent
-Science teaches us to test our hypotheses, and to lean on tangible evidence.
Etc.

The architecture and foundation of critical thinking are imbedded and embodied by the disciplinary skills intrinsic to the existing taxonomy of academic subjects.

It’s not an assembly on why Andrew Tate is bad (which he is) or Facebook is stuffed with inane rubbish (which it is). It’s the whole academic experience of a school’s curriculum- when taught thoroughly.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

In 1962, C.S. Lewis was asked to name the books that had most influenced his thought.

The list he came up with was packed with time-honored classics.

Here’s his list of 10 works🧵

[Ruby @RubyAli_]

Teaching isn’t the easiest path, but it’s a life worth living. In a healthy school community, gratitude is the essence of the culture.

Ending my first term in my new school on a positive note. School’s out! 🔔

[Isobel @E2Teacher]

I worked in a school before and after it raised expectations for behaviour. It became safer, calmer, happier & outcomes soared for disadvantaged children. Middle class policy makers will never have to send their *own* kids to the chaotic schools they create.