"Schooling in Britain today is where medicine was in the days of bleeding and leeches. It is trapped in the past, between teachers wedded to their subjects and politicians obsessed with tests. Doctors generally know if they have cured you, lawyers know if you are found not guilty. Educators have only exams to measure their professional success. The result is that English schools cower beneath an examination mountain a global outlier in terms of the volume of assessment."
"It was less refreshing in prioritising traditional classroom teaching of traditional subjects, a reversion to Dickens' satire of little pitchers who were to be filled so full of facts. The result was a timetable that has steadily been swept clean of extracurricular activities. The arts, music, crafts skills and physical education have been neglected. Familiarity with the world beyond school is ignored. Ofsted ruled all with grades, league tables and humiliation."
Schooling in Britain remains trapped in an exam-centric, outdated system that measures educator success only by exams, producing an excessive volume of assessment. Teachers often focus narrowly on subject content while politicians prioritise testing. The curriculum has become overly academic and culturally barren, with teachers treated like robots and extracurricular activities swept away. Arts, music, crafts and physical education have been neglected, and familiarity with the wider world is ignored. Inspection regimes and league tables reinforce narrow testing and humiliation. A large national consultation of roughly 7,000 submissions reported that parents, pupils and employers want relevance, life skills and financial literacy rather than test scores.
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