You can ’t teach schoolkids ‘resilience’ when they’re micromanaged every day | Richard Godwin

The education secretary wants to ‘toughen up’ pupils, but that means less structure, not moreDon ’t tell the Conservative leadership candidates, but the education secretary, Damian Hinds, is holding a brainstorming session. He wants ideas on how we cantoughen up British schoolchildren. Clearly he knows something we don ’t about the future.“To truly prepare for adult life we need to make sure our young people build character and resilience,” he announced last week as he launched a new C&R initiative – as it will doubtless be shortened to in education circles. Yes, GCSEs and A-levels are important, Hinds said – but in 10 years’ time, exam results will be a “distant memory”. (Presumably Sats and Pisa rankings, too : the whole quasi-mathematical surveillance matrix that Hinds and his pre decessors have painstakingly constructed for our children these past few decades?)Continue reading...
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