The results for
the educational tests make the British education system fall down the world
ranking in maths, science and literacy. Gove's immediate response is 'It's not
me governor it is the other bloke, my changes have not happened yet'. What!
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Step back and look
at this from a historical perspective and ask a simple question, how did we get
to being in a prominent position in the world in the first place? We are a
small island race who over a few hundred years went from being eyed with envy
by the Romans then by the Saxons then the Vikings and finally by the Normans.
The Saxons had
created a stable prosperous nation with effective laws that was the envy of
many countries in Europe. We could hold our own and trade with the rest of
Europe we were very capable and when the Normans took control after a number of
years of turbulence we were then dealing with one of the most powerful
countries in Europe France and doing very well.
With the advent of
Henry VIII we stopped following the rest of the world and did our own thing (which
we had done before, pre Roman and pre Norman). We told the Pope to get lost; in
fact we pronounced him as the anti-Christ and struck out on our own and over
the next few hundred years. We fought our way with much cunning to the top and
like it or not started to throw our weight around.
I am interested in
how we did this and in my short conclusion we did it by alliances, trade and
clever thought and this thought was unconventional, outside the box,
reinventing the wheel.
We did not do this
by following the others but by changing the rules by creative thinking.
I do not find
anything creative in the way that education is heading, so let the teachers get
on with teaching stop trying to follow the Chinese; let’s be ourselves.
Vic
