Young people struggle with the pressure to be perfect on paper and are more anxious than any other generation about making mistakes. They need arts and language subjects, which instil a passion for learning and comfort with getting things wrong, argues Daisy Buchanan.
The German word for protractor is “winkelmesser”. I learned this during a stuffy late-autumn afternoon in 1998, and I will never, ever forget it. Online banking passwords come and go, I’m not entirely sure of the date of my wedding anniversary and I couldn’t tell you the exact number of women named Ellie in the most recent series of Love Island, but “winkelmesser” would... Keep reading on The Guardian