AllConsuming.org.uk

The report out today from Cambridge University on the state of primary education makes dismal reading.  Kids are under too much pressure, too early in their life. Schools are being dictated to and managed by central government.  The question is why? The government have been suckered into the politics of global competition; the human equivalent of the arms race. Other countries are churning out brighter and better kids so we have better out perform them.  The race to win a greater share of the market then trickles down.  From the nation fighting for its place every children and student has to fight for theirs.  Its school against school, university and university, parent against parent, teacher against teacher.  To win in this competitive system children have to go to the right primary, feeder junior, secondary and then university.  They are tested and sorted at every stage.  Along the way the rich get them tutored – the best school is never enough. This arms race of learning for earning has to stop.

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