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“We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.” – Baron de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755) Why do we send the children to school? What do teachers hope to achieve when they instruct the children? What is the purpose of education? I hope these questions remain “alive” in the minds of parents, teachers and Ministry of Education authorities and are not perceived as the sort of questions which need never be asked because the answers to them are considered self-evident. The truth is that schooling is all too often seen as a boring waste of time by both children and teachers. Ask a selection of the more intelligent, least brainwashed children what they think of school and they will reply that it is mostly boring, doesn’t teach them anything useful for real life. Ask teachers willing to tell the truth and they also will admit to boredom and going through the motions in a system which is ordained and inflexible.
