In the future, if you want a job, you should be unlike a machine - creative, critical, and socially skilled.

Yet children are still taught to behave like machines. While children learn best when teaching supports their energy and curiosity, they are conditioned to sit still in rows while they are filled with facts. While adults succeed through collaboration, collaboration in tests and exams are called cheating.

Our schools were designed to produce 19th-century factory workers - workers who would sit quietly at their benches all day, working identically, producing identical products.

Schools teach skills that are redundant and counter-productive. Teachers are leaving, their careers destroyed by overwork and a spirit-crushing administration of standardisation and testing. The less autonomy they have, the more the failures of the system are blamed on them.