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 kind of schooling are just that ? failures.
Over the years we have blamed the failure of secondary education on:
? The governors
? The head teachers
? The teachers and above all?
? The pupils.
`Chance of a Lifetime? shows that:
? It isn?t the governors
? It isn?t the head teachers
? It isn?t the teachers and
? It certainly isn?t the pupils
It?s the academically focussed secondary school itself. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Chance of a Lifetime (J Langdale & Harrison)