Bring back childhood’s wild side | Patrick Barkham

The opportunities to roam free are not what they once were, but the rise of forest schools shows we still see the outdoors as a great educatorOnce we had forests and children, like my dad, John, roamed them freely. One day in the 1950s, he encountered a forester (now an extinct species, like the free-roaming child) in a nearby wood. The old woodman showed him how to use a billhook; John slung his hook and gashed his knee.I only learned this story when reading A Tale of Trees, a new book by