Posts on education

Less is more: reducing maths in schools

Jul 2022 · We make maths compulsory from ages 5 to 16 and despite this we fail to teach basic mathematical literacy, and instead waste countless hours forcing students to learn maths that they do not need or want to learn. I propose a radically different approach: dramatically reducing the amount of maths in schools.

Three purposes for education

Mar 2022 · If you live a median life in the UK then it is very likely that you will spend as much as a quarter of your life in education of one sort or another. What is it all for? Education should, I think, have three purposes: work, citizenship, and transcendence.