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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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