Meighan, Roland

Meighan, Roland

Roland Meighan

1 March 2002Feature

Will education be the tool that helps us develop utopias, or will it remain our prison? Caroline Austin talked with "educational heretic" Roland Meighan.

Roland Meighan is an acknowledged “educational heretic” for his view that mass compulsory schooling is an obsolete and counter-productive learning system which should be scrapped as soon as possible. His latest book, Natural Learning and the Natural Curriculum challenges the very essence of the education system today. It is a devastating critique-and rightly so.

 

Caroline Austin: In your latest book, Natural Learning, you quote Mark Twain, who “never allowed…