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I think you have a view that teachers only ever use one method in their teaching, and use it rigidly, which I'd cast doubt on based on what I know of teachers, having volunteered in primary schools and my experience of teachers who worked in nurseries. Personally, when I work with children, I...

Apology accepted. At least from me! I can't speak as much for school education but I know that the emphasis on reading and writing in English by Gove and Truss has gone down like a lead balloon within nursery education where the emphasis is quite rightly on personal, social and emotional...

Albert Einstein: "I never commit to memory anything that can be looked up in a book." In these days of the internet, the need to be able to regurgitate dates of kings and queens is even more pointless.

You began by calling out the teachers in this thread and you ended your post about 17% being 'functionally illiterate and innumerate' by suggesting that Gove is at least 'trying to do something about it which is more than you are.' Are teachers unbothered about their children's literacy and...

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' )...

Do you mean 'Sad Book'? If so, that is one of the most profound children's books I've ever had the pleasure of reading.

Thank you so much for posting this. Magnificently insightful.

I'm not a violent person but Gove has got the world's most punchable face.

Blimey. Providing this is not a fishing attempt, you must be easily impressed. Gove is playing a major part in destroying education in this country, and all you can do is fall so completely for his strawman tactics. He is presenting teachers as frightened, fragile things wanting to be...