I had the great pleasure recently of speaking to Edinburgh University’s Post Graduate Diploma in Education students, an optimistic, effervescent cohort of budding teachers. Three things which I said evinced enthusiastic and positive discussion.
The first was a statement by Professor Sally Tomlinson: “Education is not a commodity to be bought, sold or rationed in market transactions. It is a right and a precondition of freedom for all citizens. It involves an opening up to knowledge, ways of understanding and the development of abilities which create informed, caring and cooperative citizens.”
What an exciting and wonderful challenge: to develop, among all young people, and not merely the academic elite, informed, caring and cooperative citizens.
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