Why is it that all our pupils do the same courses at the same time, with people who happen to have been born between the same two Septembers as them?
Why is it that school starts and finishes at the same time for everyone?
Why is it that lessons last an hour, and then we all move round again?
Why is it that for all our talk about understanding multiple intelligences, 95% of learning and assessment is written?
Why is it that we try to manage the complicated business of learning by increasing the number of ever tiny boxes to be ticked?
Why is it that at the end of the day, it’s the teachers who leave exhausted?
If the answer to any of these questions is ‘because we’ve always done it like that’ then you’re missing the point
If the answer to any of these questions is ‘that’s how it works’ then you’re not seeing the bigger picture.
We (you and me) are failing thousands of people every single day we perpetuate the myth that is the education system.
I don’t have the answers. But I have some questions, and I think that’s a good start.
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