Book of the Week: Episode 5 - A different approach to schooling

Head of School, Sammy Wright looks at the role of school. This time, he explores what teaching Paradise Lost reveals about effective new paradigms for school & life? Carl Prekopp reads.

Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher and his experience on the UK Government's Social Mobility Commission, Sammy Wright has interviewed hundreds of teachers, education experts and pupils across England. Now, here in this book, he explores the fundamental misconception at the heart of our education system. By focussing on the grades pupils get in individual academic subjects, he argues, we simply end up ranking them, and our schools into winners and losers: some pupils are set on a trajectory to university - the rest are left ill-equipped for the world they actually face.

With wisdom and humour, Wright's entertaining and thought provoking book considers school's purpose.

Abridged by Katrin Williams
Produced by Elizabeth Allard