Episode 2.26: The waste of talent entailed by education’s interest in only a narrow range of gifts.

IQ tests, Gifted & Talented programmes, Prize Givings and the other paraphernalia of a self-congratulatory education system’s determination only to measure what it is set up to produce and to cast aside those who cannot demonstrate their gifts when assessed on such narrow scales. To take responsibility for our own education someone has to help us to get started, to reach the stage of self-understanding needed before we can undertake such a demanding exercise.