Surely the problem really is that these people think they are cleverer than the rest of the education world? Education is never left alone in Britain, certainly not for the last twenty five years at least. With changes of government, policy and ideology, there is not and has not been a long term continual process for education. The one size fits all type of education system does not fit all and suffers many square pegs into round holes and vice se versa. "Children are what they learn", but what do they learn when teachers are constantly having to change direction? And with the present external influences of the world around them education has little to offer and even less to stimulatedespite the dedication and hard work of thousands of teachers. Those people who make the policy offer suffer from the "Emporers' new clothes" syndrome. Many of them are not long term practitioners. Many of them are the "high flyers" who initially seem dedicated to education and have a meteoric rise to fame through the ranks to headship and then advisor etc. Most who go that way (IMHO) walk into schools and pontificate, they follow the latest "party line and few dare to say that it is not right.

The problem with education is that everyone has been through the process and is an "expert". They all carry their own baggage via their memories and experiences good and bad.