I wonder whether we need to take another look at our modern school education system. Maybe some of the things we (rashly?) ditched had some importance that we d

I wonder whether we need to take another look at our modern school education system. Maybe some of the things we (rashly?) ditched had some importance that we didn’t realise at the time. Like learning poetry by heart, learning multiplication tables, “old-school” teaching methods that have now fallen out of favour.