Former science teacher who wouldn’t be cowed now works for the minister FOCUS ON PERFORMANCE: David Silman is now a director in the Department of Basic Education advising Minister Motshekga on delivery issues. LIKE a schoolboy, David Silman’s face lights up as he remembers hurling improvised explosives at a gang of protesting teachers who invaded […]

Authority lies within the teacher as a person, rather than in the person of the teacher and respect for a teacher only endures when children recognize the merits of the individual. We all remember a special teacher for their ‘humanness’, rather than their strictness or even their knowledge or teaching competence. Too many teachers depend […]

Read about the man, his dream and raison d’être….. David Silman is a twenty year veteran science teacher. He has worked in urban and rural public schools, private schools as well as in state schools in England. In an editorial (2 April 2011), The Star newspaper described Silman as ‘a very 21st century version of […]

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Why there is a desperate need for a specialised school environment for intellectually gifted children – especially kids from less affluent families? Thousands of intellectually gifted children are falling through the cracks in the Basic Education sector, condemned to continue a life of poverty and exclusion at worst, or at best, consigned to the frustration […]