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By Richard Garner, Education Editor
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Pupils are being turned into “a seething mass of bored, frustrated, alienated children” by today’s education system, a leading professor will claim tonight.
James Tooley, a professor of education policy at Newcastle University, will say modern state schools are built on a “factory model” which denies students the chance of an individual education tailored to meet their needs.
“The innovation required to transform education is dismally lacking in current schooling,” Professor Tooley will say, as he presents one of a series of lectures on education policy, jointly sponsored by The Independent and the Learning Skills Foundation.
“One of the most startling deficiencies of schooling today is that the majority of it is still carried out with 20 to 30 children of the same age in a classroom with one teacher. It is the factory model that was there when I was a child and my father and grandfather before me.”
Professor Tooley advocates the dismantling of the current system and says private providers should be encouraged to set up their own schools. Children should be urged to learn at their own pace through the internet, where they could access curriculum material prepared by academics from elite universities such as Oxford and Cambridge… Continue reading
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