Schools Quotes

creativity, like learning in general, is a highly personal process. We all have different talents and aptitudes and different ways of getting to understand things. Raising achievement in schools means leaving room for these differences and not prescribing a standard steeplechase for everyone to complete at the same time and in the same way.

Our schools have been over managed and under led.

Better build schoolrooms for ‘the boy’,
Than cells and gibbets for ‘the man’.

The day of the bog-standard comprehensive is over.

As for disgraceful betrayals of wisdom such as the pretense that there is something called "creation science" and we ought to give it equal time in schools with proper science - I'm ashamed to belong to a human race that is so sunk in abject ignorance and willful stupidity.

the connection between poetry and school is the problem...the trouble lies in the notion that poetry has to be "taught" ... that there is a professional caste of people best equipped to do so