Katharine Birbalsingh, Teacher, Learning Without Frontiers,

[thewolverleyscandal]

Katharine is simply fabulous.

[KRISTERPETTERSSON]

The Swedish educational system is just the catastrophe that Katharine is describing from Great Britain - and worsened by the socialist state- introduced break-down of families and parent authorities as Dr Gordon Neufeld and Dr Gabor Maté describe in their book "Hold on to your kids" - Why parents need to matter more than peers.

[tonowicz1]

I think you mean treated 'simply', rather than 'simplistic'. In order to create a truly simple system first you must personally navigate a plethora of complexities. One must be aware that a system will never reach a conclusion. The capitalist culture is fundamentally flawed, so although one can achieve superficial success through force, eventually one's system will self-destruct. I see nothing new offered here - only singularity, linearity and literality. Address selfishness and selflessness.

[tonowicz1]

A rose-tinted over-reliance on the assumed greatness of the past, is just as pointless as an over-reliance on the technology and philosophies of present day. Her intentions are well-meaning, but this seems too simplistic. I don't hear any solutions to problems here, I just hear reform through regression. The answers to such complexities are never neat and tidy standards of parenting, teaching styles, government policies and so on. Anyone can make an army, but is that how we all want to live?

[Hereticalable]

@tonowicz1 You've obviously had no military training if you think anyone can make an army. A well run army is a lot more open than you think - but there is structure, discipline and order - something we lack in modern society. Why can't proposed solutions be simplistic? Why can't ideas from the past be examined if they worked better than what we have now? What are you afraid of? A little bit of conformity? She's hardly proposing we become a military state run like Nazi Germany for goodness sake!

[EnochCarpenterTV]

Katharine should be given a medal for services to education.

[sixtiksix]

Would love to get her over here in 'merica...after the school system, she could straighten out the Department of Defense and then maybe run for POTUS...

[landline00]

@sixtiksix I'm in love. Get rid of Congress and the Supreme Court and make her dictator for life.

[MlleLarisa]

Wow! I'm liberal and a teacher but agree with her completely. I have just realised that I am educationally conservative!!! :) Respect to KB for voicing what has been boiling in my brain recently...

[Education4every1]

@MlleLarisa Are you kidding? She wants everyone to learn mandarin, latin and stop teaching ICT.... she's a nut job.

[Guardian898]

God she makes me sick! Doesn’t deserve any of the sympathy she is receiving! It’s disgusting the way that she allowed a child at her school to be shown, named and ridiculed at a party conference. Who does she think she is?! If people knew the real way she had acted she wouldn’t have half as much sympathy from anyone. Absolute disgrace to her profession!