What amuses (or enrages, to taste) about all of this is that schools like Summerhill, and that educational ethos has become a standard part of primary school teaching in England, are considered to be of the left.

FORBES: Hippie Educationalists and Libertarians

The Conservatives claim that teaching has now become so wrapped up in the red tape of endless testing and form-filling that disillusioned teachers are leaving the profession in droves.

ECONOMIST: No issue looms larger than the state of Britain��s schools

In what has become a polarised argument, other vital issues such as the quality of teaching or evaluations of school performance have hardly been broached.

ECONOMIST: Education in Chile

The minister argued during a debate on literacy that it forms the cornerstone of learning and therefore every teacher in Wales has a responsibility to ensure that their teaching supports young people to become fully literate.

BBC: Debate on literacy