The name is absent

be informed by the disciplines but

only insofar as the students come

ation they presumably settle for a commonsense that professionally

upon one’s stance butjust as likely to be muddled and contradictory
especially in these early weeks.

School C 23.10.81 P10∕ll qi

RE That's what John Holt (1973) says - (inaudible)
- that children will learn by their own dis-
covery. I don't agree with that but .....

SS2 No, I’m not saying that -

So you’ve got to question the system .....

kids by the time they’re 14 or whatever -
that’s been extracted out of them - but

Is it because they see no hope.

that one of the kids made

that the teacher came into school and announced
it was a school holiday that was unexpected

and of course all the kids were thrilled
to bits about it. You know the whole
approach that school is a nuisance, that
you have to go through and get what you can
out of it when it should be really something

they enjoy because they could be learning

I don't see anything wrong with being ideal-
istic related to what exists but I think

it’s too easy to talk about the system.

I mean what exactly is the system

SSl What is it then?

Tutor It sounds much more than just the school
system.

SSl It’s the whole way of life in inner London.
What do they see?

М2 Maybe that’s what it is when they're born
they're really naive and hadn’t actually
appreciated what life is like. Maybe it
is a really horrible thing when you just

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