"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." - e. e. cummings


And until EVERY school in the world has that emblazoned, proudly, above the entrance to its doors and makes it the most important lesson they 'teach', then I will *never* believe in them.

Until they stop seeing children merely as Exam Fodder and League Table Achievers, and start seeing them as Profoundly Precious Human Beings, then we ain't going nowhere.

Until they themselves can learn to let go of testing, of homework, or exams and are then freed to see the uniqueness of every child, together with the skills and creative ability of each child, things will not get better.

The people who most need to learn, in schools, are those who create schools in the first place.