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Perhaps one of you teachers out there could explain why about 17% of school-leavers are functionally illiterate and innumerate? Clearly this child-centred think for yourself type of education has failed them. Doesn't that bother you? Children learn things in different ways, perhaps many would benefit from rote type learning of facts and figures in a structured lesson.
What would worry me more is if this education secretary, like all his predecessors, was prepared to write off 17% of the population if it meant a quiet life. At least he is trying to do something about it which is more than you are.
Do you blame your 'child-centred' teachers for your poorly developed argument that confuses coincidence and causality? You are doing the Michael Gove tactic of using a truism (in your case: 'children learn things in different ways,' in his case 'constructive is better than just being critical' ) and try to shoehorn it onto a cartoon-like depiction of what is happening in schools (teachers having no interest in children's literacy and knowledge and teachers think they deserve to be unaccountable and unanswerable) which is unrecognisable from my experience of schools and nurseries that I have worked and volunteered at, and probably others with real world experience of education today.