By Jamila Gavin, novelist, Arvon tutor and Advisory Group member for the Teachers as Writers project
Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
How do today’s children discover themselves and the world when everything has to be calculated, tested and evaluated? Where is our next Isaac Newton, lying under a tree, seeing the apple drop, and that sudden imaginative leap of realisation that there was such a thing as gravity? Are children given the space and time to explore, ponder and even be bored? Continue reading “Time to dream”