
Blind rule-following may improve grades but does it stamp out individuality? A teacher who has seen the results discusses the pros and cons.
By Lucy Kellaway
In my first term as a trainee teacher, I was standing at the front of the classroom trying to prove to a year 7 class that 0.1 is bigger than 0.0999. Unannounced, in walked a deputy principal who stood at the back, glowering.
After a few minutes she stopped the lesson. ‘Miss!’ she hissed. ‘Didn’t you see what just happened there? This yo...
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