#136 - Katharine Birbalsingh - Why Britain Stopped Believing Children Need Discipline
Katharine Birbalsingh is the headmistress and founder of Michaela Community School in Wembley, and a former UK Social Mobility Commissioner.
She built the most successful school in Britain from nothing — in one of London's poorest boroughs — by insisting on the things the educational establishment now treats as radical: discipline, gratitude, knowledge, and the belief that every child is capable of excellence. Her results are extraordinary. Almost nobody in the profession will copy her.
In this conversation, we think out loud about:
Why Katharine believes children are born naughty rather than…
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