This video is brilliant...I've put the full speech in the 'Re-Thinking Education' thread, but heck, if you want to know why so many kids are turning off, running away from education, from life itself, feeling so disconnected, so angry..then listen to what Ken Robinson is saying, because he is advocating the solution to many teachers, many of those in control, right around the world...

Some are starting to listen....

Ken Livingstone on Changing Education Paradigms


We have a whole generation who are being lost...Many of those are being labelled 'chavs' and then verbally kicked by the very people who deem themselves to be so intelligent.

Again, I am not defending bad behaviour, merely pointing out where so much of it comes from.