{"product_id":"an-intelligent-persons-guide-to-education-9781472913111","title":"An Intelligent Person's Guide to Education","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Intelligent Person's Guide to Education\u003c\/strong\u003e by Little, Tony. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781472913111.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTony Little is The Headmaster of Eton. One of the most progressive and imaginative\npeople in British education today he has hitherto kept a low profile. This book\naccompanies a three part television series to be screened on BBC 2 but differs from it\nsignificantly.\nThere is a crisis in the British education system. Year on year GCSE and A Level pupils\npost better exam results, with more students achieving top grades. Yet business\nleaders and employers complain bitterly that our schools are not producing people fit for\npurpose. What we have become is a nation `Over schooled and under educated`.\nFar from being locked in an ivory tower, a bastion of privilege, Mr Little has used his time\nas a teacher and headmaster to get to grips with fundamental questions concerning\neducation. He wants to produce people fit to work in the modern world. How do children\nabsorb information? What kind of people does society need? What is education for? Not\nonly is the author one of the great reforming headmasters of our time but he has planted\nAcademies in the East end of London, founded a state boarding school near Windsor and\nyet is a passionate advocate of single sex schools.\nThis book is not a text book for colleges of education- it is a book to enlighten the\nteaching profession and just as much for anxious parents. The book is simply arranged\nunder topics such as authority, expectations, progress, self-confidence, sex, crises and\ncreativity.\nTony Little thinks it is time to ask some fundamental questions, and to make brave\ndecisions about how we make our schools and our schoolchildren fit for purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792615497781,"sku":"ByrdShop_1472913116","price":60.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781472913111_8515664a-1284-4545-9e8d-8afd8200a9e9.jpg?v=1789553944","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/an-intelligent-persons-guide-to-education-9781472913111","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}