Saturday, September 10, 2011

Education

The Guardian has an interesting piece on school systems in Sweden.It shows the "open" teaching principles and student freedom that they have aspired to. In a way it resembles the blackboard jungle. The last paragraph is terrifying:

But as I was leaving his school, one of his students, Mohammed Mahmoud, put it differently. "This is a school for criminals," he declared, to laughter. "Nobody's working in this school, because no one here has any future."

One wonders if anyone is listening.