I was on Liverpool's City Talk Radio this morning, discussing the presenter Duncan Barkes's tongue-in-cheek proposal of making the game Scrabble a compulsory part of the school curriculum. He was, however, serious in believing that our education system is failing because it focuses too much on teaching subject knowledge, which is boring and puts children off. He hasn't realised that he is pushing at an open door - most educationalists are as estranged from education as he is and would agree that playing Scrabble is the best or perhaps the only way to convince pupils to pay attention to spelling.

The link should be active until Wednesday 11 June. I'm on 2hr 20min into the programme.
http://www.whatson.com/goto/?type=radio&station=citytalk&show=a_duncan_b...