32 min
Episode # 7. Hugh Gammell, House Master & Registrar at Charterhouse Will Orr-Ewing
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- Education
In this interview, I speak to retired Charterhouse House Master and Director of Admissions, Hugh Gammell.*
We cover,
- His reflections as a housemaster at Charterhouse and the vocation of being a teacher
- Teaching teenagers from the 1970s to today. What has changed and what hasn’t?
- Teenage rebellion & risk taking & the conformism of children today
- The mavericks and misfits who “make a difference”
- The former pupils who have made him proud
- The importance for children of having non-academic interests
- Specialisation - studying history for its own sake
- Boarding, independent schools and their place in society today
- Mobile phones and the curse of technology today
*The interview was recorded in a restaurant and I'm afraid the sound quality is not good. However, you get into the groove after a few minutes and I hope it will be intelligible.
In this interview, I speak to retired Charterhouse House Master and Director of Admissions, Hugh Gammell.*
We cover,
- His reflections as a housemaster at Charterhouse and the vocation of being a teacher
- Teaching teenagers from the 1970s to today. What has changed and what hasn’t?
- Teenage rebellion & risk taking & the conformism of children today
- The mavericks and misfits who “make a difference”
- The former pupils who have made him proud
- The importance for children of having non-academic interests
- Specialisation - studying history for its own sake
- Boarding, independent schools and their place in society today
- Mobile phones and the curse of technology today
*The interview was recorded in a restaurant and I'm afraid the sound quality is not good. However, you get into the groove after a few minutes and I hope it will be intelligible.
32 min