Автор:J Langdale & Harrison Год: 2007 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 276 ISBN: 9781846930409 The purpose of this Paperback is to start a debate about the real problem of how we should educate our young people. It is based on the book `Chance of a Lifetime: How the other half loses? by Jonathan Langdale and John Harrison. To be winners today, young people have to be `good at school? (or very lucky). Clearly, a great many of them aren?t `good at school?, but we believe they are all good at something. Because the Great and the Good became the Great and the Good because they were `good at school?, the received wisdom is that their kind of academic schooling is good for everyone ? it must be! Look how successful they are! Thus the `best schools? must be facsimiles of their schools and schoolchildren must all be judged by their standards ? the gold standards of GCSE A*-C and `A? Levels followed by university. If only everyone was as academically clever as they are, wouldn?t the world be a better place? And the children who fail at their...
