- The curriculum must create the best opportunities and lead to best outcomes for young people.
- Any new curriculum must equip the next generation of adults for the creative, flexible, entrepreneurial and open-ended challenges that their multiple careers will throw at them.
- The curriculum mustn’t be a drawing-board to indulge the whims or ambitions of adults, not even of politicians.
- Meanwhile, arguments rage between adherents of a “knowledge-rich” curriculum and those who want it to be “skills-based”.
- But equally vital are those other activities, often (misleadingly) called co-curricular (and, worse, extra-curricular): playing in a group, team sports or competitions, outdoor education, voluntary service. These and a host of other activities are the elements that build character, resilience, altruism, appreciation of community and social responsibility.