I am someone who wants to go back to the future but even I am worried about what Michael Gove has to say in today's Times . He wants the curriculum to go back to the facts and figures world of his own education with a 'great tradition' decided by great minds, such as the clearly bonkers 'Carol Vorderman'.
What he doesn't want is some education about 'abstract thinking skills', yet this is clearly what IS needed. The reason I want to go back to the future via the Trivium is that it will enable kids to think independently, research, make connections and arguments and be able to articulate their ideas. By just concentrating on his version of the quadrivium (subjects) with no idea about how to think our kids will be bored and educated for a world that no longer exists.
Michael, stop putting together second rate lists of the (not so) great and the good and let teachers run the schools without interference from your list of 'experts'. Let teachers devise your new curriculum, or abolish the National Curriculum altogether.
Carol Voderman got a third in her degree. Hardly someone who should be listed alongside Lord Winston in respect of academic brilliance.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Julaybib,
ReplyDeleteAnd did you see Vorderman on BBC Question Time? Bonkers!