English teachers spend more time working than their peers abroad, not because they give more teaching time pupils but because they are compelled to devote too many hours to administrative duties,
Encouraging university students to behave as infants will damage both their independence and their studies.
Parents telling off teachers for sending their children home from school sends mixed messages about authority.
Students who regard higher education as a sophisticated version of school are not being prepared properly for a life of independent learning. Schools need to urge them to take risks.
Surveys of children not only reveal little beyond the obvious, they are also often used as indirect prompts for influencing schoolchildren.
The prevailing cultural script is that boys do not perform as well as girls in exams. As a result, the stereotype has become self-perpetuating.
Busy, distracted, inattentive? Everybody has been since at least 1710 and here are the philosophers to prove it.
The mixing and meshing of different cultures is something to celebrate.