Watching the detectives...

The game is afoot as radio free school mingles with the children and youth of Captain Squeezy's Theatre Group as they perform and reflect on their experience acting and directing six performances of SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE GIANT RAT OF SUMATRA.

Age range of the talented cast was five-years to 16 years.

We called the show The game is afoot, befitting the theme. I would say it was one of the most spirited and rambunctious plays I've ever seen (except perhaps Conquest of the South Pole in a Toronto Theatre in 1994), but definitely the most ad-libbed...

A tremendous job well done...let's have a spot of tea, shall we?

(Pictured: Devon and Sean Atherton as Watson and Holmes)

SOCIALIZATION: VIEWPOINT

The fourth article by RFS's Beatrice on Home Education is up at the CBC Viewpoint web site, for your reading pleasure.

Nothing like a Moot point to engage the imagination...

But public education has always expended its energies in the support of prejudice; it teaches its pupils, not the fortitude that shall bring every proposition to the test of examination, but the art of vindicating such tenets as may chance to be established. We study Aristotle, or Thomas Aquinas, or Bellarmine, or chief justice Coke, not that we may detect their errors, but that our minds may be fully impregnated with their absurdities. This feature runs through every species of public establishment; and, even in the petty institution of Sunday-schools, the chief lessons that are taught, are a superstitious veneration for the church of England, and to bow to every man in a handsome coat. All this must be unlearned, before we can begin to be wise.

William Godwin, Of National Education.