Church life should be about learning

Veronica Zundel believes the Montessori method provides a good example of education for adults as well as children

Education. Or “Education, education, education”, as a certain Mr Blair famously said. According to Pink Floyd, it’s what we don’t need none of (although more education could have avoided that egregious double negative). Parents are never satisfied with what’s provided by the system to which they entrust their little darlings from an alarming early age (in defiance of all research, which shows that the later children start formal education, the better they do academically). Teachers are never satisfied, which is hardly surprising given the ever-increasing demands on their time and energy. And as for the pupils – well most of them would much rather be at home and left to their own devices (devices on which they could probably learn much more than at school but on which they’re probably playing some implausibly explosive game…).