Michael Morpurgo and school - BBC Radio 4's "A Point of View"
Because this is the beginning of a new school year, and the last video was about post-lockdown school, I thought it appropriate to post a very interesting short broadcast from today on this subject by the renowned (and wonderful) children's writer Michael Morpurgo. He is best known for the story War Horse, about a horse purchased by the army to serve in the First World War in France, and the attempts to bring him back home. This was adapted into a successful play and a 2011 film by Stephen Spielberg. I strongly recommend it!
Here Morpurgo is talking about the return to 'normal', especiallly at school. But many of us across the globe are realising that 'normal' was profoundly damaging and abnormal, for our personal physical, psychological and spiritual health, that of the whole planet, and indeed the whole of humanity. It is time, he says, to rethink our educational systems and what they are about. He is particularly critical of the British government's management of the crisis in schools, and how students found themselves judged by algorithms instead of teachers, affecting their chances of going to university.
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