The Game Changers podcast celebrates true pioneers who inspire us to take the big step forward and up in education and beyond. In this, the Prologue of Series Eighteen, your host Professor Phil Cummins, sets up the provocation for the theme of the new season: The Character of Success. Phil identifies the questions that intrigue him about what it means to live a good life, one that's both worthwhile and well-lived, and digs deep into the preparation that school can give for this life. He examines in particular five powerful knowledges with which learners can be equipped: to know what, to know how, to know where, to know why and (most of all) to know who one is and is becoming as school equips students to become young people with the character to thrive in their world. Phil tests this understanding in conversation with two key people in his life: Dr Ian Lambert, Principal of the Scots College, Sydney (with whom Phil's had a deep professional connection for nearly two decades now) and also his mother, Dr Rohma Newman Cummins (wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, pathologist, orchestra manager, business owner and the Founding Chair of CIRCLE Education).
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