10 September

Ken seemed a lovely guy. To me as an educator and researcher, he was one end of a destructive see-saw. On one end sits the 3Rs people, on the other the 'creativity' people, like Ken. Both leading education astray for decades. The problem with education isn't that it's not creative, or that it's too rigid. It's that it focuses either on content (the 3 Rs people) or on children (the creativity people). Neither approach focuses on actual teaching. Teaching is a practical activity with known techniques that work. Education doesn't focus on that.