Michael Rosen doesn’t like how schools teach kids:
“Testing does something to children, and it does something to teachers. It does something to the whole rhythm of education,” he says, flailing one of his baboon-like arms. (His appearance has been likened to a Quentin Blake illustration – long, baggy and slightly startled-looking.)
“As far as primary schools are concerned, there is no reason for Sats. They get in the way of what I would call education. They ask questions of stories that are almost irrelevant. The questions we should be asking are: ‘How do you encourage litera-ture? How do you encourage poetry?’ Not: ‘How do you count the adjectives in The Cat Sat on the Mat?’” [more...]
