We have become very good over the last hundred years or so at teaching our children. We have developed remarkably efficient systems for mass education that have brought learning and opportunity to ‘the people’. Indeed we can look back proudly at a system that helped to fire the industrial age. We have, however, become wedded to our own success as a society and become complacent – to an extent, falling into the classic trap that lies in wait for anything successful, which is to enjoy the benefits and let the system take care of itself. As a result our system for mass education has remained largely unchanged. (..) From the first mass education systems of Victorian times up to today the system and the thinking behind the system have changed little, so in many ways schooling is becoming less and less relevant.

//Richard Gerver, 2010, Creating Tomorrow's Schools Today: Education - Our Children - Their Futures