Someone sent us this quote last week. Wonderful stuff. I wonder whether this book is on Gove’s list of fifty books children should read every year
Terry Pratchett’s I Shall Wear Midnight
P 329
‘I want a school, sir. I want a school here on the Chalk.’
‘Well, the travelling teachers do come through every few months’, said the Baron.
‘Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they’re useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It’s like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they’re good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it’s too late. Learning is about finding out who you are, what you are, where you are and what you are standing on and what you are good at and what’s over the horizon and, well, everything. It’s about finding the place where you fit.’
That is so good, Ian. Thank you for posting! I think I may use it on Thursday in Northampton … :)Put me in mind of that Einstein quotation: "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid."
Imagine…. An education minister… who put children above his own political ends…. Who wants his charges to achieve more than he is capable of…. THEN CRY FOR YOUR CHILDREN, FOR MY PUPILS, FOR THIS COUNTRY, FOR OUR FUTURE. ….
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