The Telegraph – Josie Gurney-Read
” Inquisitiveness is being squeezed out of education due to a focus on testing and the narrow requirements of the curriculum, Michael Rosen has said. The former Children’s Laureate said that humans are inherently “questioning creatures” but that the current drive for “robust testing” means there is little space for children to really engage with literature. Speaking to the Telegraph at an early years conference in London, Mr Rosen said that pupil individuality is lost when the drive to meet targets becomes the purpose of schooling. “We all have questions to ask, we probably have questions to ask as we emerge from the womb in one way or another, up until the day we die,” he said. “But this questioning way of seeing the world has been squeezed out of education.” .”(more)