Even if We all Stayed at School Till We Were 80, We Wouldn't Learn Much Unless We Were Properly Taught

For more than a century now, well-meaning people have clung to the idea that the longer we all stay at school, the better educated we will be. Up and up goes the school leaving age. Yet since it rose to 16 in 1972 (it���s now 18 in England and who knows if it will ever stop rising?) there has been no sign that the country is any cleverer. The growing numbers of exclusions and special schools tell us that many children actively hate being made to stay in classrooms where they learn little and liv...