I think grammar teaching should start with real examples of language in use: journalism, fiction, songs, ads, instructions, headlines, transcripts of conversations… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The world is becoming increasingly changeable and unpredictable, so why should education make the knowledge being passed on so finite and certain;… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I think the best learning takes place when you create an atmosphere of curiosity and excitement. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Education is all about making sure that the next generation know what our representatives think they should know. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Since 1988, successive governments have treated education as an electoral asset: theyve come up with endless slogans and projects to supposedly solve… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
If you say to teachers, how can we, with the resources we've got here, develop a policy on reading books, then within… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
We have an almost complete comprehensive primary school system in England. Surely, if grammar schools are some kind of answer to making… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
A society based on a market economy which decided that people should only be allowed to take up senior positions in business,… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
There should be room in education for schooling to be more responsive to events, more focused on varying interpretations and more able… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
What happens on the ground is that schools have been required to follow a literacy matrix - yes, some schools junked it… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Across the many years I've been involved with arts education, I have seen countless projects, schemes, partnerships and programmes, on and off… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Politicians of all kinds think there's some running in talking tough about children's reading. They think that if they announce to the… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Performance poetry is not one genre. Some chant, sing and dance. Some stand rooted to the spot and stare. Some chat their way in… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
When I was about 15 - that would be some 60 years ago - I remember my father, a secondary school teacher, was always… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
One of the many falsities of fiction that we accept quite happily is the non-ageing of characters as they appear across series and sequels. — Michael Rosen Copy Share
Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it.… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
What happens on the ground is that schools have been required to follow a literacy matrix - yes, some schools junked it - but… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
Yes, it's possible to play computer games on your own and many do. But I also see children playing them in pairs and fours… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
You can give up the best years of your life knowing that no matter what you do or how you do it, your step-child… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
We have an almost complete comprehensive primary school system in England. Surely, if grammar schools are some kind of answer to making education better… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
Where the government has got it seriously wrong is to imagine that poetry is about right and wrong answers, that poetry has testable outcomes.… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
Its social: in doing the arts we find out what we need from each other. But its also about survival - surviving as individuals,… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
Cricket is great for families, so long as you don't play by the proper rules and adapt it so the youngest can be helped… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
The brothers Grimm were indeed once read by millions of people - quite often the first reading materials given to people in the 1950s… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
The world of children's books is a very friendly, decent place to be. It's full of people who are desperate to enlighten, interest and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that children don't… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
