Main Findings
The report was widely known for its praising of child-centred approaches to education, stressing that "at the heart of the educational process lies the child".
Recommendations in the report included those listed below:
- All schools should have a programme for contact with children's homes (Ch. 4)
- Primary schools should be used as fully as possible out of ordinary hours (Ch. 5)
- A national policy of 'positive discrimination' should favour schools in deprived neighbourhoods (Ch. 5)
- Training college should expand opportunities for teachers to train in teaching English to immigrants (Ch. 6)
- Surveys of primary education should be undertaken every 10 years (Ch. 8)
- Nursery education should be available to children at any time after they reach the age of three (Ch. 9)
- A three-tier system of first, middle and Secondary schools, with transfer at ages 8 and 12. (Ch. 10)
- Authorities maintaining selection should not rely on intelligence and attainment tests. (Ch. 11)
- The infliction of physical pain as a method of punishment in primary schools should be forbidden. (Ch. 19)
- The maximum size of primary school classes should be reduced (Ch. 20)
- The term 'slow learner' should be substituted for 'educationally sub-normal'. (Ch. 21)
- More men teachers are needed in primary schools (Ch. 25)
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