In the US and the UK it is becoming the norm that children emerge from school ill taught and ill prepared for the world at large.
In the New York Times article Building a Better Teacher an argument is made that there needs to be a new understanding of teaching and be able to distinguish between techniques that really work and those that don’t.
But I think there also needs to be discussions about what we need as nations from our schools.
Seth Godin believes school is a scam it is about brainwashing.
It may be that it is not the quality of the teaching at all but the diet of the pupils. Jamie Oliver in his campaign to improve school dinners found that with a healthy nutritious meal at lunchtime that there were improvements in the children’s mood, behaviour, and even their ability to concentrate.
