British education policy is turning children into mini robots, marginalising those whose minds don’t operate along conventional, mechanical lines. The Government must listen and enable children to take arts GCSEs, argues Alice Thomson.
Tyrone Musngi has been playing the cello for less than two years, but aged 11 he is already grade eight standard and practising for three hours a day. In a speech this week in front of the Mayor of London he explained how the London Music Fund charity has transformed his life, paying for lessons to enable him to become a musician from, as he calls it, “a modest background” and win a place at the Royal College of Music’s junior department. His school couldn’t give him the oppo... Keep reading on The Times
Tyrone Musngi has been playing the cello for less than two years, but aged 11 he is already grade eight standard and practising for three hours a day. In a speech this week in front of the Mayor of London he explained how the London Music Fund charity has transformed his life, paying for lessons to enable him to become a musician from, as he calls it, “a modest background” and win a place at the Royal College of Music’s junior department. His school couldn’t give him the oppo... Keep reading on The Times