Words of wisdom.

How refreshing to hear Gareth Southgate talking to Amol Rajan this morning. He was saying what many of us have known for the longest time – that not every young person needs to go to University (and leave with massive debts), that boys need to be taught differently from girls, that the curriculum of today doesn’t offer enough to the less academic pupils and that so many young men don’t have good role models. So much common sense in that interview. Many years ago I taught one young man who became a chef – Food Tech, taught by a specialist, was crucial to him. I had several boys in my Child Development group, one of whom became a paediatric nurse. We had girl engineers who had flourished in Technical drawing classes, woodwork and metalwork. So let’s hope that Mr. Southgate can rock the education boat and we see some changes!