Lord Jim Knight, TES Global's Chief Education Advisor, told The Memo how schools need to ditch rote learning and embrace innovation.
"Education and the way we teach in Britain is fundamentally broken. We’re yet at a position where we allow the internet into the exam hall, to test thinking rather than recall
Indeed when it comes to memorisation and rote learning – you know those ‘traditional’ schooling practices – Britain is No.1 in the world, according to the OECD. But when it comes to deep understanding of concepts and applied learning, we’re lagging painfully behind."
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