The classroom was never build for you | Gareth A. Brinkworth | TEDxRishworth Youth

hated school. I found it rough and violent and many of us felt afraid and uninspired. Um, there were some good teachers and they tried hard, but the school was absorbing too many of society's problems.Poverty, neglect, a collapse in social trust, a decline in a sense of community, and the school just couldn't cope. So 30 years later, I'm doing a PhD in education to try and find out why we send so many of our children somewhere they don't like. Because it's not just my school.When I became a teacher myself, ...