Jackie Kemp gives a low mark to the people who adjudicate on schools. From the Scottish Review (www.scottishreview.net) http:/www.scottishreview.net October 5 2010.
There is a Chinese proverb which says: 'Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself'. Education therefore is about the pursuit of knowledge rather than, as George Bernard Shaw put it, 'knowledge in pursuit of children'. In recent times Scottish education has seemed more like the latter than the former with a surfeit of top-down state-led box-ticking initiatives aimed at having all children achieve this level or that level by certain ages.