Here’s a fabulous article from Tim Hall, he is talking about the American education system but I’m sure you’ll agree it also applies to us in the UK. Here is his first paragraph:
As a high school teacher, I’ve found out that everyone has an opinion about public education. Most of those opinions have to do with what needs to change. I remember having some of those opinions for myself as far back as my teens — at 16 I was sure I knew everything my teachers were doing wrong. As a university student in the Teacher Education department, the talk of educational reform was the backdrop of every day. It seemed that everyone had their own ideas about how to fix public schools, as if there were a consensus that they were broken, but disagreement on where the break was and what to do about it.
You can read the full article here.