That's a very nice presentation Schobe (love the graphics) and he raises some valid points but it is vague vision led stuff and what kids need now is the nuts and bolts at the coalface approach.
What is the nature of assessment and who gets the results?
How is progress measured?
What happens when there is no progress?
The present system means that the poor kid who can't even read and write or add 2 +2 is made to sit in Religious Education and discuss Christianity and Hinduism because the National Curriculum says so. He will be seen by a steady stream of professional inteferers, none of whom will have anything verty useful to add but come the review, the parent will be bamboozled by an impressive sheaf of papers.
It's all very well advocatating individualism and divergent thinking but, as a community, we have to think about core skills-being part of a group, understanding how time works and how to manage it, having the basic rights of literacy and numeracy. These matter and can and should be within the reach of nearly every child.
Sal Khan (of the brilliant Khan Academy) says many of the same things but offers practical ways to implement them.
His new book
The trouble with going down the 'unlock your creativity' route is that it lets the malingerers and inadequates off the hook even more as Vicki Snider expounds so brilliantly in her book
Then the fact that your kid can't read, write, express himself or know where he is meant to be from day to day can be brushed aside because hey! he is attending a 'nurture group' (was this a joke? Do these things really exist) or he was expressing himself on a set of bongoes or getting in touch with his inner self in a padded cell sensory room.
Zig Engelmann knew this years ago.
Teaching kids in our needy system
What we have does not work.
It is a parastic industry whose continued existence depends on children continuing to fail.
If they didn't, these people would be our of a job.