How you can make a difference….

On Saturday September 4th, when the What on Earth? Wallbook was first launched The Daily Telegraph, I made a direct appeal to readers to help me compile a dossier of strategies that could and should be deployed to engage our nation’s young minds with a thirst for learning.

Please send me your best and worst memories of education.

Perhaps you are being educated now or maybe you are an educator? If so, what engages you in learning? What do you find motivating and inspiring? What in your experience makes an effective learning environment – at home or school? How should the curriculum be organised? What is the right balance between learning and testing?

I am committed to collating and presenting these ideas, along with a copy of the What on Earth? Wallbook, to Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, at the Conservative Party Conference in early October. I shall also post a copy here at www.whatonearthbooks.com for you to download.

Tell your friends about it – involve anyone you know who has an interest in eradicating the cancer of boredom from our schools. Who knows? Perhaps officials at the Department of Education will then turn their heads to making sense of our blue-sky thinking and convert at least some of our creative ideas into practical policy.

Please email your ideas to chris@whatonearthbooks.com