The education secretary has told children hardship and stress at school prepare them for life
I see you’ve been talking to school students about education. I was very interested in your justification for exams being stressful: “…when you leave school, hard and stressful things come along. Learning about what can be stressful episodes is part of the preparation for later life.”
I wonder if there is a principle here: whatever horrible experience we have in later life should either be put on the school curriculum or be part of how the curriculum is taught. For many people, the tedium of work is one feature of adult life. Rather than leaving it to chance, can we make it policy that school should be tedious?
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Michael Rosen
The education secretary has told children hardship and stress at school prepare them for life
I see you’ve been talking to school students about education. I was very interested in your justification for exams being stressful: “…when you leave school, hard and stressful things come along. Learning about what can be stressful episodes is part of the preparation for later life.”
I wonder if there is a principle here: whatever horrible experience we have in later life should either be put on the school curriculum or be part of how the curriculum is taught. For many people, the tedium of work is one feature of adult life. Rather than leaving it to chance, can we make it policy that school should be tedious?
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