The first 100,000 words: Writings on Education by a Teacher

 Following the advice of many, rather than learning antiquated nursery rhymes that I have no real connection to, I’ve taken to singing songs I know well to my newborn. This has made me realise that there are many songs we think we know, songs that we like, but the songs that we ‘know’. Know enough to recite from memory. Are never those songs that we would like them to be. For me, many of these songs are very old Australian Hip Hop tracks. Whilst digging back through these songs, I’ve discovered recollections and interviews of the seminal MCs of this time, Trem, Bias B among others. Each of these artists present the arrival of ‘Beat Street’ (1984) as the moment when there life was altered towards the culture of Hip Hop, for me the moment that my eyes were open to the world of education, was reading Flip the System Australia. This 30 second clip from the seminal graffiti documentary ‘Style Wars’ explains my feeling upon discovering this book: Before reading this book, I was intereste