Who Should Run Schools?

Abstract

Introduction:  " . . . schools are awful everywhere.  Grown-ups . . . run the schools to suit themselves."  Mark in Chapter 5 of Harry presents some powerful arguments on schools and education.  Following is a summary of a discussion of Harry 5 by a group of fifteen student teachers enrolled in the Primary Diploma of Teaching Course at a College of Education in Canberra Australia.  The discussion was one of the tutorial sessions in the Philosophy of Education Course.  All tutorials in fact were based on selected extracts from Pixie, Harry and Lisa