Dr Steve Hughes, assistant professor of Paediatrics and Neurology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, is calling for a re-think in education and a move away from traditional teaching and what he calls the 'teacher, student, test' of School 1.0, based on what we now know about the way children learn.
Talking to Nursery World before speaking on education and parenting in the 21st century at the Maria Montessori Institute in London last weekend, Dr Hughes said, 'At the end of the day we know far too much about children's brains to keep doing this. The idea that children should learn the same thing at the same time flies in the face of how cognitive learning works for children.'
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