Achieving Excellence?

Abstract

I added a question mark to the title because I think that we should all be questioning what is being achieved in our school/college/university/place of work It also points an arrow at our heart and forces us to answer the question as to whether or not as individuals we are achieving excellence in our own performance. There is a difference between doing well and doing the best we can. Has any one of us ever achieved our full potential? I know I have not. To recognise that is important in itself

This is not an erudite piece of educational research, so do not look for the statistics or the charts, they are not there. This little piece has no conclusive results or professional breakthrough to offer. Rather it is a perambulation through nearly forty years in teaching and an attempt to distil some thoughts about helping gifted children achieve the excellence of which they are capable.