It's who you know

I've mentioned my PhD topic to some people at College, and it didn't take long for the name dropping to start. "Try such-and-such". Well, I contacted some such-and-suches by email and received the ultimate payback just today. An Emeritus Professor generously prepared a series of comments and a comprehensive reference list for promising works on Christian education! It is hard to express ones gratitude for such assistance.

At the moment I'm reading Freire's Pedagogy of the oppressed to get a better handle on general philosophy of education, to be followed by Bertrand Russell's On education. Friere is challenging - the pendulum probably swings too far in correction, but his context is more extreme that mine - and he is certainly stimulating thought. One of the most helpful pieces of advice I received when starting was "be sure to start writing straight away". This is working well, but there are many revisions of copy to come!