British education and how I would fix it

In a previous article, I used the BBC’s 3-part documentary series chronicling an experiment in which Chinese teachers took on a class of British kids for a month, to describe the ways in which I believe British education is broken. As the series concluded, we saw that the Chinese teachers, despite battling nothing short of mutiny among their students, achieved results 10% above the rest of the year group in examinations set by an independent research body. It was a slap in the face to the previously uber-confident headmaster Neil Strowger, who predicted the failure of the Chinese school with alacrity. His response summarised everything objectionable about education today.