A round-the-world quest to discover the secret of learning - Page 6

“ I wanted to find out how to reimagine our systems of education to fit the way kids really learn.”

Educationalist Alex Beard travelled through 20 countries, for two years, in search of the most promising learning approaches.

“Schooling is not the same as learning,” wrote the authors of the World Bank’s World Development Report for 2018, the first of its kind to be devoted entirely to education. I know what they mean. A decade ago I grabbed an English syllabus and headed off to teach at a south London state high school. My pupils spent half the time baffled and the rest bickering. They were in school, but they weren’t learning much.