Culture Before Curriculum | Andrew Hammond

Our children are more than the sum of their school grades. Behind every GCSE or SATs result lies a whole person with incalculable, untapped potential and myriad facets and capacities just waiting to be discovered. The only limits on our potential are the self-prophesying myths peddled in school about our learning abilities, our intelligence and our capacity to make progress. What a child shows she knows in school is not an accurate measure of her lifelong learning ability or her human potential. Schools are for growing minds but nothing stifles growth like ranking or grading.

Head teacher Andrew Hammond believes that it’s not how smart you are that counts, it is how you are smart and makes a case for redesigning our schools so that our children can pursue their natural inclinations and in so doing, find their self-worth.

You can find Andrew on Twitter and learn more about him on his website. Read his original TEDxRoyalTunbridgeWells 2019 Speaker profile here.