The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Tackling a generational crisis in learning
A new book not only lays bare what’s wrong with the education system, it shows how it can be corrected, says PETER LATHAM
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
Betraying a Generation: How Education is Failing Young People
by Patrick Ainley
(Policy Press: £9.99)
ACCORDING to this book’s author Patrick Ainley, the current education regime “spends more on testing seven-year-olds than on books for them to read and then issues them with library tickets for libraries that have closed.”
That flies in the face of what happened during the three decades after 1945, when schools became less selective and further and higher education opportunities expanded.
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