God Bless you Sir!
Prince to promote old-school teaching - Newspaper Edition - Times Online
THE Prince of Wales is to set up his own training programme to promote traditional methods of teaching English and history in state schools.
Prince Charles renewed his attack on modern teaching methods yesterday, saying that they had robbed children of their cultural inheritance by promoting misguided notions of equality and “accessibility”.
He announced that he was joining forces with Cambridge University to establish the Prince’s Cambridge Programme for Teaching to “re- inspire” teachers over the value of literature and history.
“For all sorts of well- meaning reasons, and for too many pupils, teaching has omitted to pass on to the next generation not only our deep knowledge of literature and history, but also the value of education,” he told teachers at the fifth annual Prince of Wales Education Summer School in Cambridge.
“There is a need to revisit the fundamental principles that drive our educational beliefs; to reinspire teachers; to question the notion that equality and accessibility are best served by reducing the range and quality of work that pupils undertake; and to put a stop to the ‘cultural disinheritance’.”
The old boy may be seen as a bit of a crackpot but on some issues he is not only spot on but also gets things moving. I hope this becomes as successful and as influential as his Prince's Trust and Poundbury initiatives.