The debate about what is education continues unabated. The DfE annoyed and baffled many last month when they announced that they did not advocate using the word learning because it is a weak term; they want to use the term attainment instead.
Whatever happened to lifelong learning? Learning not to attain anything but to enjoy the experience, to deepen and interest to just know and understand more. An essential attitude to rekindle people with the idea of learning for the love of it.
One of the reasons, we have so many people who struggle with maths and all things number is because they have been "scarred" by poor experiences in school and never want to have anything to do with formal learning, exams or books. This causes us endless problems as we try and encourage adults to become reflective teachers, interested in action research and open to learning as the basis of great early years teaching.
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