Wellington College, one of the country’s top independent schools, has decided the time has come to teach its pupils how to think.
To that end, it has employed a thinker-in-residence – writer and broadcaster Tony Buzan.
It will be Mr Buzan’s task to deliver lessons that introduce pupils at the school to new and effective ways of thinking.
He will be aided by Julian Baggini, the author and philosopher, who has been appointed to a second key role aimed at promoting argument and discussion in the classroom – philosopher-in-residence.
from the independent.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. If even the top schools in the country have worked out what they are doing is somewhat lacking, when is the government going to realise what they have done to a generation with their focus on assessment and testing?
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