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 about the clock.

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.

The issue of innovation, and entrepreneurialism, is a little like the issue of class size. Over the past few decades huge amounts of money have been spent to reduce class sizes with little to no positive effect on student learning. This is because, again, if you don’t change the activity with the change to the environment you have wasted the money.