Amazon.com description: Product Description: The education system as we know it has been essentially unchanged for 150 years. We now know much more about cognition and about how young people learn. Does that mean that the system of formal education was ever appropriate? This book analyses the experience of education from the pupils point of view, based on empirical evidence. Whilst the truth might not be welcomed (like the facts about climate change 40 years ago) it cannot be ignored. The research shows how pupils survive, but questions whether this is all that is wanted.