Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Learning Environments Is current traditional schooling accepted cruelty?

I highly recommend watching this video, which is an animation of a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson. It is eye opening to see how our schools developed, based on the way factories are run. He talks about different ways of grouping kids and how schools are designed to reward convergent thinking and not divergent thinking.

It's not to bash schools, but it certainly raises questions about whether our schools are the best they can be.