No revolution necessary: mainstream public schools can – and must – put creativity at their heart | Steven Cook

Children will leave school without any enthusiasm for life if we only focus on the basics, says one principal who overhauled his public schoolHere’s a question: what is education for? Is it for equipping young people narrowly for a career? Or is it for equipping them for life? I believe that if education has an enemy, it is narrowness, which leads inexorably to another enemy: boredom.What is killing our schools is the belief that we should concentrate on the basics and pretty much the basi