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    What we do need is a generation of young people who have an enterprising mindset; who, in other words, think like an entrepreneur. Now, what do I mean by enterprising?

I hate grading. I love teaching, though, and giving students feedback is teaching.

A single minded focus on a ranking test to exit school on is under minding the capacity to produce resilient, bold, future creative problem solvers.

A lot of things we do because it’s the way we’ve always done it but what is education for? Is it for the admin team or is it for the children?

Time is the ‘first technology’ because it is the most controlling of all the structures which define ‘school’. Learning is, of course, timeless. It exists in its own temporal zone, unique to each individual, and different for each thing ‘learned’. But school is all...

Swinburne University is moving to remove grades from some core sections of its design degree, saying students’ focus on high marks was stifling the creative process.