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Our crisis of democracy is a crisis of education

From Trump to climate change, our children must be prepared for the huge challenges of this century. So why are we still preparing them for a nineteenth-century industrial culture which doesn’t exist?

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This is part one of an interview with Graham Brown-Martin.

I think that the crisis of democracy we’re experiencing at the moment does have some roots within education provision. It’s hard to have functioning democracies without people having access to high quality education, and that starts in school, primary school, through secondary and university, and so forth. I think very few people would disagree with that.