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I am going to go out on a limb here and say something that will get me into trouble.
It is only in the last century that all children (at least in the first world) have been sent to school for a dozen years. Before the first world war only the children of the wealthy and upper middle classes were highly educated , the rest were taught only enough to get by in a job and then sent on to apprenticeships and sweat shop jobs and of course, domestic service. It changed after that war and again even more so from about the 1950s. Now its become a right that all children should be given as much education as we can possibly drum into them.
Is it possible that not every child is university material? Are we perhaps trying to force an unrealistic level of education on every single child in the system. Should we not perhaps give consideration to vocational training?
Please don't imagine for one minute imagine that I am suggesting a 'them' and 'us' situation. I am all for sending kids to school at the age of three and keeping them there until they are old enough to have their own kids at 30, so this is ot my thinking its merely another model to be considered.
If we did consider vocational training, how could it be implemented. Obvioiusly the idea of full academic education for every child is not working, so what about a more practical model?
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