麻豆约拍

From education's frontline, head of school and English teacher Sammy Wright has a fundamental question about the purpose of school. Carl Prekopp reads.

Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher and his experience on the UK Government's Social Mobility Commission, Sammy Wright has interviewed hundreds of teachers, education experts and pupils across England. Now, here in this book he explores the fundamental misconception at the heart of our education system. By focussing on the grades pupils get in neatly siloed academic subjects, he argues, we simply end up ranking them, and our school,s into winners and losers: some pupils are set on a trajectory to university - the rest are left ill-equipped for the world they actually face.

With wisdom and humour, Wright's entertaining and thought provoking book considers the role of schools today.

Abridged by Katrin Williams
Produced by Elizabeth Allard