About this episode

Bridget Phetasy discusses with Katharine Birbalsingh the impact of a lack of values on a generation and the responsibility of previous generations in teaching them.

Bridget Phetasy sits down with Katharine Birbalsingh — the founder of Michaela Community School and the woman known as Britain's strictest headmistress — to talk about how an entire generation grew up without values, and whose fault that actually is. Katharine makes the case that kids never abandoned their values; they were simply never taught them, because Gen X and Boomers took those values for granted and stopped leading. They get into why consistency in praise and punishment is everything...

People in this episode

Host: Bridget Phetasy

Guest: Katharine Birbalsingh

Topics covered

• victimhood
• education
• values
• leadership
• generational differences

Keywords

• victimhood
• education
• values
• Gen X
• Boomers
• leadership
• praise
• punishment

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Michaela Community School

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