Wot, No School?
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491_9781846930768
The purpose of this Paperback is to start a debate about the real problem of how we should educate our young people. It is based on the book Chance of a Lifetime: How the other half loses by Jonathan Langdale and John Harrison. To be winners today, young people have to be good at school (or very lucky). Clearly, a great many of them arent good at school, but we believe they are all good at something. Because the Great and the Good became the Great and the Good because they were good at school, the received wisdom is that their kind of academic schooling is good for everyone - it must be! Look how successful they are! Thus the best schools must be facsimiles of their schools and schoolchildren must all be judged by their standards - the gold standards of GCSE A*-C and A Levels followed by university. If only everyone was as academically clever as they are, wouldnt the world be a better place? And the children who fail at their kind of schooling are just that - failures. Over the years we have blamed the failure of secondary education on: •The governors •The head teachers •The teachers and above all... •The pupils. Chance of a Lifetime shows that: •It isnt the governors •It isnt the head teachers •It isnt the teachers and •It certainly isnt the pupils Its the academically focussed secondary school itself. You can join the debate as soon as this websites Messages Forum is up and running in a few weeks time/by the end of March 2007 and the book is available to purchase. Join the debate by adding your voice to the growing number who want to give hope to all our young people through an education that is right for them as individuals. About the AuthorThe authors are practitioners with many years experience in teaching, educational leadership and training. They are not educationalists. That is why they are able to challenge the received wisdom that schools are the only way in which young people can be educat
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