With so much information available on their phones and computers, children don’t need to memorize facts like multiplication tables and important historical dates.

Competitive sport should be banned in schools, so that children’s self-esteem is not affected by losing.

Schoolchildren ought not to be given grades on tests, only general comments, so that they can’t compare themselves with other children.

The people who decide on new education laws should be teachers, not politicians.

Secondary school teachers should never be made to teach more than four hours a day, so that they have enough time to prepare classes and correct homework.

Teachers should not be allowed to use red pens to correct exercises as this is psychologically harmful to students.

Online learning and coursework can never totally replace traditional learning methods.

Continuous assessment and project work is fairer than traditional written exams.

Science teachers should be paid more than arts teachers as it is much harder to recruit them.

The best way to motivate children to pass exams is to give them money as a reward.

Children don’t need to be ‘streamed’ at school. Stronger pupils can learn as much in a class with weaker pupils as they would with those of their own level.

The fact that everyone uses keyboards to write means that it’s no longer important to teach handwriting.