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The Lord Puttman DVD ‘ ‘We are the people we’ve been waiting for’ is today FREE with the Guardian newspaper. The web site is there for comments.

This is not a 2 minute or a 7 minute fix … you need to listen/watch it all …

Here are a few of the things that caught my attention as I listened for the first time:

• ‘I want to do amazing things with my life’
• Does school help you find your passion?
• I’d like to be … flexible … happy
• What if you have no goal … what if your prospects have been closed down?
• People are different - education has insisted that they are the same
• She has grown into herself … a fantastic young lady
• I’d like to be … like … a lucky one
• We need people who can question … schools have ‘over-served’ them
• We programme children to be compliant
• We are not tapping into creativity we are producing little foot-soldiers
• The preoccupation with reading and writing masks so many other things
• Why have so many ’successful’ people failed in school?
• They focus on what you can’t do not on what you can
• Policy makers focus on the curriculum and assessment
• We use education as a way of disqualifying children
• Education is about drawing out of children what is in them
• Mental truancy … there - but not there
• Anyone who doesn’t think that education is about the economy is not thinking
• There is no long term strategy for education in the UK
• Education is being used as a political football
• It is not a question of doing what we have always done but better … we need to do something radically different
• There are people doing fantastic work … we need to share it
• We need to re-address basics … productivity needs to be tied to creativity
• You are special
• High quality education …. designing new systems without building a legacy system first
• Creative and proactive thinkers
• Paint your picture … its yours
• Masters and mistresses of practicalities
• The debate about the curriculum is locked into either practical or academic
• The connect between school and the ‘real world’ …
• We need to revisit what school education is about
• All the high performing systems recognise that they have to invest in teachers
• There is no school on earth that is better than the teachers
• Shouldn’t we be allowing students the luxury of learning from their mistakes
• We can be more efficient by using technology
• Technology can never replace the teacher but it can empower
• We provide the student with the opportunities to learn in their way
• Technology can provide the core to move away from
• The curriculum will become student-centric … it will be mass-customised
• It may be too late for today’s students but not so for their children
• I want to make my family proud and I want to be proud of myself
• … following something that will make him happy
• We owe it to ourselves to plan for change .. to plan for transformation
• If we don’t act then the world’s problems will exceed our capacity to deal with them

Attribution: Original image: ‘Mankind‘
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73491156@N00/1394588888
by: Éole Wind