Don’t teach Brexit schoolkids about Tennyson: teach them maths
by Phillip Inman from on (#229MB)
Learning patriotism from Michael Gove's syllabus is all very well: but basic GCSE failures are preventing thousands from taking up opportunities
Michael Gove's inspiration for including Tennyson's The Charge of the Light Brigade in the new English GCSE syllabus is becoming clearer every day.
Gove, one of Vote Leave's architects, understands the spirit running through British history that can result in episodes like Lord Cardigan's fatal Crimean attack, or the evacuation of Dunkirk in the second world war, being lauded as great episodes in history.
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