ABSTRACT
I recently reread an article (Kelly, 1986) which recalls many of the concerns which I have about primary education at this moment. One paragraph, amusingly, summarized my greatest worry:
There is one shoe manufacturer whose television advertisement reveals more awareness of the individuality of children’s feet than most current political pronouncements on the curriculum reveal of the individualities of their minds or personalities. Education is at least as personal and individual a matter as health or diet.
