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No - I'm saying the opposite. 17% of school leavers are illiterate and innumerate under the present system so other ideas should be tried. What's to lose?

I'd like to apologise to all teachers out there for this phrase, I'm afraid it slipped out when the red mist was down. My take on the situation was that Gove was merely stating that all children should be taught to read and write correct English and he got panned by the teaching profession for...

This of course is true, for every illiterate child there will be an equally illiterate and probably ignorant and stupid parent, maybe even two. This is the chain that must be broken. I guess in the past they would have been absorbed by the factories or put in uniform and sent off to war...

Where in my poorly developed argument have I said this? All I have done is to highlight the fact that the current system of education has left a large section of the population at a disadvantage and if other systems can be tried then why not? Learning by rote is hardly 'destroying education in...

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...