An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education Quotes

“The Magic of Reality, aimed”
― Tony Little, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education

“So let’s scrap the GCSE altogether: what purpose does it serve? The nation requires a snapshot of performance in key skills at the point of the legal school-leaving age, so let us have a basic matriculation requirement in English, Maths, Science and maybe a modern language: no more than this.”
― Tony Little, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education

“Our society’s almost doctrinal emphasis upon deductive reasoning, convergent thinking and selective retention perversely excludes divergent thinking, approximation and, importantly, guessing. If we are truly to understand the adolescent mind and develop effective ways to minimize the effects of risk-taking behaviour, we really need to understand these processes and engage with them. There is no logic involved with drug-taking and gambling. Adults can learn, too; understanding these mechanisms will also allow us to encourage creativity and value the spontaneity so characteristic of the adolescent mind.”
― Tony Little, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education

“As a parent like any other, I know that a good education is the greatest gift we give our children”
― Tony Little, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education