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, credentialled, and quietly lost. The Soul of Education is a conversation about what we left out. Each episode, Dr James Biddulph MBE 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 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. Because a child is not a set of outcomes. A child is a soul in formation.

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  Learning from the Living World | Richard Dunne on The Soul of Education Podcast

  Sep 7, 20261 hourS1

  <p>Ask a child to draw nature and most will draw something they are standing outside of.</p><p>Richard Dunne left headship to found The Harmony Project, convinced that the way we structure learning teaches children a quiet falsehood: that they are separate from the living world rather than part of it. In this episode he tells James Biddulph what prompted that decision, and what a curriculum looks like when it is built around the principles that govern the natural world instead of around subject boundaries.</p><p>The conversation moves from theory to the ordinary detail of running...

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  Where has all the Joy gone in Education? | Nitesh Gor OBE on The Soul of Education Podcast

  Sep 7, 202626 minS1

  <p><b>Somewhere between Reception and Sixth Form, the joy goes missing.<br/></b><br/>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 evidence and into the harder argument underneath it.<br/><br/>Edurio's 2025 research found that only 45% of secondary pupils feel physically and mentally well, falling to 31% by the age of 18, with interest in lessons collapsing across the same years. Anthony Seldon puts it more bluntly, describing a system in which the joy is squeezed out of school...

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