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I had forgotten that the reality of education is a more gritty and compromised state of affairs: with politicians, Unions, teachers and the public

enlightening scientific evidence that a fluent speaker can acutally fool us into thinking we have learnt more than we actually have

I had been seduced by the cult of personality

I was looking for something like answers for systematic school change, yet all I found were charming individual examples and beguiling prose.

maintain my infinite hope invested in an education system that improves marginally day by day, by gritty perseverance.

Sir Ken’s latest speech was another barn-storming performance. But beyond the frilly knickers of the performance we are left searching for the less aesthetically pleasing undergarments that are the practical answers for change.

Thousands of hours of ‘deliberate practice’ enable creativity

repeating the rules of grammar with sometimes deadening repetition can actually create the mastery required for playful creativity and rule breaking.

I will take his glamorous TED talks with more than a pinch of salt.

No call for creativity by Sir Ken would provide a universal panacea to the grey, ambiguous reality of schooling

a fluent speaker can acutally fool us into thinking we have learnt more than we actually have in comparison to a less fluent speaker