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6th December 2013, 12:00am

“Prepare pupils for Pisa”. Or we could stop this obsession with measuring everything. Just a thought.

@sue_cowley

How about we prepare them for life, not a test?

@GilchristGeorge

Fair point, George! Hopefully in Scotland, CfE prepares young people for both.

@cisweb

The Finnish approach? Concentrate on what’s important and the rest takes care of itself.

@GilchristGeorge

I keep hoping that one day all the parents will rise up and say: “You are no longer allowed to use my children to measure your system.”

@sue_cowley

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

@GilchristGeorge

Teenager arrested over “sectarian online comments” after #Clutha police helicopter crash.

@STVNews

Santa only volunteers one day a year. Slacker.

@ProjectScotland.