“Being a role model is the most important kind of educating.” —John Wooden In June 2025, shortly after the NBA Finals, journalists interviewed Vaughn Alexander, the father of Oklahoma City Thunder ...

Children begin learning about life early on from the people who surround them. From the earliest age, youngsters mimic their parents and look to caregivers to guide their development and demonstrate ...

Children learn primarily through observing and imitating the behaviors of others, both positive and negative. Positive role models, individuals whose behavior, attitude and values are admired and ...

Matchmaking wasn’t on my list of future careers when I left school, but once again I found myself hosting the Callander Young Farmers Take Me Out competition. Not every guy got a date, but I’m pretty ...

Vincent Straub is supported by UKRI (HORIZON-MSCA-DN-2021 101073237) and the Leverhulme Trust (RC-2018-003). Joanna Nadin, Michael Joseph Richardson, Robert Walker, and Sarah Moore Fitzgerald do not ...

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The Education Secretary is to call for more men to become teachers, as she said boys’ behaviour and their influences are “a defining issue of our time”. Bridget Phillipson, in a speech in London on ...