Here is Sir Ken being interviewed by student reporters from Broughton Hall High School, Gateacre Community Comprehensive School and St Julie’s Catholic High School in his home town of Liverpool.
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In this talk to teachers he argues that the education system cannot face the future by doing better what it did in the past. No one knows what the future holds for young people in school today but it will be very different from the world now. In his view the traditional hierarchy of subjects must be swept away.
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