As we start the new term, if there's one piece of advice I'd give both teachers and students: never let fear guide you. And more strongly for education leaders: don't use fear as a teaching tool. Fear is a treacherous advisor. Fear blots out the beautiful. Fear starves creativity. And fear turns all the alarm clocks to NOW, preventing long term thinking. Fear asks us to sacrifice wellbeing - your own and that of everyone else, for its sake. We know the science of learning he